A collective subject like 'a people' or a state cannot be put on par with popular sovereignty as this would blur the distinction between popular and state sovereignty.
Meinong thinks that "the indefinability of impersonal values is not to be put on a par with the one of color or sound, but rather with the one of melody or form [Gestalt]" (1923, Chapt. IV, §7, 161).
Rap should be put on a par with Shakespeare and Wordsworth.
An additional benefit of this approach is that community banks would be put on a par with the largest banks, reassuring depositors who are unconvinced that the government will protect uninsured depositors in small banks.
But Clegg made clear that he had his own personal concerns with the current format, which means that the Lib Dems would be put on a par with the SNP and Plaid Cymru.
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Stack, who commands the 500 troops in south Armagh from nearby Bessbrook, dismissed the Irish government's suggestion that the process of demilitarisation should be put on a par with the process of decommissioning.
Spain wants to be put on a par with the "big four" countries; the Dutch want more say than the Belgians, and so on.The reweighting of votes between countries will inevitably become entangled with the third big item on the agenda: what to do with the European Commission in an enlarged EU.
His own style, in contrast, tends to the elegiac and the polemical, as when he claims that great cuisine should be put on a par with great painting, sculpture, and music, that "Dodin-Bouffant is a gourmet as Claude Lorrain is a painter, as Berlioz is a musician".
If they had given him the Pulitzer for literature rather than for music it would have elevated his artform and sent a message that would have resonated around the world: that rap is a legitimate form of poetry and should be put on a par with, and treated with the same deference as, Shakespeare and Wordsworth.
The need to develop alternative insecticides to replace or supplement pyrethroids on nets is urgent and should be put on a par with the seeking of new antimalarial drugs or vaccines that have received far greater attention and resources in recent years.
Yes, says an unabashed Jean-Pierre Chevènement, France's fervently left-wing interior minister, "because in the [1789] Declaration of the Rights of Man, the basic right to security is put on a par with liberty".
