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Example sentences for "equal opportunity"

  • We are determined that every citizen of this Nation shall have an equal right and an equal opportunity to grow in wisdom and in stature and to take his place in the control of his Nation's destiny.

  • The ideal of equal opportunity no longer means simply the opportunity which a man has to advance beyond his fellows.

  • I will continue to work with all my strength for equal opportunity for all Americans--and for affirmative action for those who carry the extra burden of past denial of equal opportunity.

  • Such a programme as this is one of the meanings of the phrase "equal opportunity," which voices the demand widely felt for some larger conception of economic and social justice than now obtains.

  • An intermediate view has for its maxim, "equal opportunity.

  • President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces.

  • While solemnly proclaiming its belief in the principle of nondiscrimination, the service had continued to sanction practices that limited integration and equal opportunity to a degree consistent with its racial tradition and manpower needs.

  • Arbitrary quotas violated the principle of equal opportunity, he charged, and the experiment would be unfair to Negroes because the proportion of Negroes able to compete with whites was less than 1 to 10.

  • Indeed, boundaries are often broken, rules are bent, and victories are achieved through means which do not exactly preserve the noble ideal of equal opportunity or of fairness.

  • Actually the opposite is true: equal opportunity should be used in order to preserve distinctive qualities and bring them to fruition.

  • On the stage of the events they sponsor, the world's largest companies compete with feminism, equal opportunity, AIDS, and various disabilities for the attention and dollars of the audience.

  • Every citizen of the Republic of China shall have an equal opportunity to receive education" (Art.

  • Every citizen of the Republic of China shall have an equal opportunity to receive education.

  • The guarantee of equal opportunity in modern society is the ballot.

  • They who had sprung from the people a short life span ago were now throttling individual effort and shackling the great movement for equal rights and equal opportunity.

  • He comes as the advocate of equal opportunity and he comes with the power to enforce his will.

  • We ask only that the door of 'equal opportunity' be unbarred--that we may enter.

  • Certainly the Negroes have failed to realize this 'equal opportunity' in the matter of training at West Point and Annapolis, and is gaining commissions in the Regular army.

  • Our country is either a country of 'equal opportunity' or it is not.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but when they came; cannot answer; equal amount; equal angles; equal degree; equal distance; equal distances; equal height; equal importance; equal numbers; equal parts; equal portions; equal protection; equal right; equal size; equal times; equal unto; equal value; equal volume; equal weight; equally true; geometrical ratio; heroic poem; must necessarily; sharp frost; spiritual good