sense of equity

Even that approach is bootless, though, until Wolfe makes an appeal to their sense of equity.

She led the girls in singing, and into song she carried her sense of equity.

What everyone's looking for is a sense of equity and fairness, so it all makes sense to the American people."

It gives everybody a sense of equity and equality."

Melos is a naïve young shepherd with a sense of equity.

Dreiser wanted a sense of equity for all Americans and he understood what brought on the Great Depression.

The shareholders had a grievance, of course; and some one had to get it in the neck to satisfy their sense of equity.

"Johnny has always had a tremendous sense of equity," said one his oldest friends, the Rev. John L. Frye.

In one of the play's shattering moments, the irate young man finally asserts his will - and is beaten back by the father's misguided sense of equity.

"His sense of equity and fairness would be very helpful now," Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots' owner, said this week.

"Something had to be done for the city, and there has to be some sense of equity, whether it's a regional share or another way of driving money to your area."

"Judge, I appeal to your sense of equity, fairness and to all the powers that you possess to unbreak the hearts of the people of New York."

Mr. Weidenbaum offers a long and sensible list of ways to cut the budget without reducing national security, or increasing poverty, or offending most Americans' sense of equity.

The downside of such visceral overflow is that it creates a false sense of equity about the American workplace, while simultaneously pricking insidious fears and hostilities some whites carry about blacks.

But there is a certain sense of equity that resides in life, and it was this sense in him that resented the unfairness of his being permitted no defence against the stone-throwers.

Even though the traditional justification for maintaining a relatively fixed pay structure is to promote a sense of equity among employees, by abandoning it, Mr. Kozaki said, dissension in the ranks soon dissipated.

However, the Catholic Encyclopedia asserts, "justice requires notice of his strict sense of equity, his reforms in the municipal administration, and his fight against official bribery and traffic in posts of dignity."

The Marquesan chief was ignorant of rebates and discounts; but he had a primitive sense of equity and an equally primitive conception of the economy of nature, and he balanced the account by eating the man who had cheated him.

He knew that she had been captured six months before on the Malaita coast, that her captain had been chopped to pieces with tomahawks, and that, according to the barbarian sense of equity on that sweet isle, she owed two more heads.

"We had the ability to predict that components of employee satisfaction, such as a sense of equity, feeling rewarded, salary satisfaction and advancement opportunities, along with a sense of achievement and enjoyment of the challenge of the work, would lead to increased customer satisfaction."

Where, as here, the seller not only takes unfair advantage of the buyer's ignorance but has created and perpetuated a condition about which he is unlikely to even inquire, enforcement of the contract (in whole or in part) is offensive to the court's sense of equity.

At the end of her essay Weil discusses the sense of equity in which the suffering of combatants from both sides, Trojan and Greek, of whatever rank or degree of heroism, are treated in the same bitter and unscornful way.

In the three months since President Clinton withdrew her nomination to head the Justice Department's civil rights division, the public has been acclaiming Professor Guinier for something, probably not for her law review articles, but perhaps for handling repudiation nicely, or, as she hopes, for embodying some elusive American sense of equity.

Credible deficit reduction can only be achieved if the politics of fear give way to the recognition that what is micro-politically jeopardizing for individual politicians is macro-economically sound for the country; if liberals develop a functioning spleen to go with their heart; if conservatives reflect a greater judgment and sense of equity to temper their convictions.