Sentence examples for unequal partners from inspiring English sources

To paraphrase Nobel economist Amartya Sen, equal rules with unequal partners constitute unequal rules.

As afternoon newspapers lose circulation, they have become unequal partners in joint operating agreements.

Essentially, the London-Frankfurt deal had been a hurried attempt to construct a "merger of equals" between unequal partners, riven by national and cultural differences, regulatory distinctions and concerns over technology and back-office clearing and settlement procedures.

Apparently, Mr Shii hopes to discover whether it is still true that, as the party's Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy declares, the Japanese people are enslaved by American imperialists working hand in glove with their unequal partners, Japanese monopoly capitalists.

Dazzled, Richard offers her three days in Las Vegas and ten thousand dollars, and she agrees to go, but with serious conditions — no kissing on the lips, no penetration, no discussion of feelings, plus her own room and the maintenance of strict business hours from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. The movie turns into a ritualized battle between unequal partners.

Although his homosexual ambitions were idealistic ("He seemed to want it all to be, oh, the classical world, Plato, all that sort of thing: dignified, honorable," a lover of his recalled), the reality was unequal partners and a lot of rough trade.

Because we did not survey faith-based organizations that had previously partnered with us but were not interested in adopting the program, we had an unequal distribution of previous partners among adopters (8/12) and non-adopters (0/10; p < .002).002

These results remind us that unsafe sex is the outcome of a social interaction between partners with unequal power to negotiate condom use, and that HIV-infected women may have difficulties in controlling sexual intercourse with seronegative men [38] [40].

Although the exact history of tortoise pairing in captivity is incomplete, it is certain that males and females have had unequal access to mating partners during the breeding program.

The commission also found evidence that couples face unequal treatment when one partner has a medical crisis.

Indeed, the thing that respondents most frequently cited as a risk associated with collaborative research was the possibility of unequal reciprocity from a partner.