How To Use Equitable In A Sentence

Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
They 100 engage more in a dialogue that involves planning and equitable exchanges or balances of advantage.
Equitable and sustainable development presumes that the natural resources will be used.
By comparison, an Equitable Life 10-year endowment policy, with monthly premiums of ￡30, would have produced about ￡8,399.
The new system has the virtue of a lowered rate of tax, a simple method of computation, and an equitable spread.

The award will be the amount that the tribunal considers just and equitable in all the circumstances.
They are expected to protect all the athletes and to ensure fair and equitable competition.
Representation schemes once fair and equitable become archaic and outdated.
Many ‘developing’ economies are either not developing at all or are becoming ever more inequitable.
For example, if the title deeds are left with the company, an equitable mortgagee by deposit will take priority.
The statistics of the indigents within our municipalities would determine and justify their national equitable share.
Instead, the Act reintroduces the equitable rule of shareholder approval.
To help local government, we are introducing what we call the equitable share of revenue for local government. Speech by the Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening of Kwa-Ndebele Water Supply Project
We need this community of interest to be based on and a part of sound, equitable decision making.
It is inequitable because it ignores the question of how many people have to be supported from any one individual's earnings.
Resource depletion, environmental degradation, inequitable access to resources, tenurial issues, upland poverty and the continuous influx of lowland migrants into the uplands are among the current issues in natural resources management. Chapter 5
If the employer omits to reply, or is evasive or equivocal, the tribunal is entitled to make any inference it considers just and equitable.
The brilliant pallid moon remaining in its equitable position, cascading above the rural community and shining down its radiance like a stage light, pinpointing the main theme of a play.
We must all be vigilant before our fair and equitable system of health provision is dismantled before our eyes.
High-minded though it may be to demand of the majority community to alone bear the burden of secularism, the minorities must do some heart-searching on their own to ask whether their expectations are fair and equitable.
A company in liquidation has instituted proceedings under the Trade Practices Act in general equitable principle in the Federal Court.
Equitable mortgages can also arise from an agreement for value to give a legal mortgage and on the mortgage of an equitable interest.
We wanted to come up with a fair, equitable and easy way to reward bloggers for their writing.
The more inaccessible our post-secondary education becomes, the more inequitable society will become.
The situation is quite inequitable and causes Legal Aid to be yet another depressed and disappearing public service, only missed when gone or very hard to find.
The inequitable part was obvious in the lack of female interest in me as I sat all alone in a nightclub. THE MANANA MAN
Surely a more rational, equitable and plain simpler system is imaginable and politically realisable?
Its charter commits to 'an effective, equitable, rules-based multilateral trading system', but the bloc has never officially established a free trade zone. Times, Sunday Times
They are also a relatively objective and equitable way of distributing valuable resources. Human Resource Management in Government
The true and equitable law of humanity is the _free exchange of service for service_. Sophisms of the Protectionists
A suit in equity was instituted between two parties resident in England to enforce an equitable lien to land situate abroad.
No one is foolish enough to believe that we have an equitable system at the moment.
Parrish, artistic and tolerant, encouraged Fisher to write, providing her with well-funded bohemianism and what Ms. Zimmerman calls an "equitable partnership with a man who valued" her creativity. The Romantical She
If sacrifice is called for then fair and equitable treatment must be the order of the day.
There is no doubt that the concentration on agricultural liberalization brought the key concerns of fair trade and equitable trading opportunities to the forefront.
The focus of a mediated divorce is on reaching an equitable solution to such issues as spousal support, property division, child custody, visitation, etc.
Unsurprisingly consumers will lose confidence in insurance if equitable treatment is seen to be at the discretion of the insurer. Times, Sunday Times
It's hard to resist the premonition that Equitable's problems are far from over and more grief lies ahead.
A research agenda that inherently recognizes this connection between northern ‘wealth’ and southern ‘illth’ [what John Ruskin referred to as the opposite of wealth] will go a long way towards equitable and sustainable development. Ecosystems, poverty, and the consumption elephant
A bimetallist and a believer in the quantitative theory of money, he originally called for free silver as a means of providing ‘more money’ and an equitable currency system.
an equitable distribution of gifts among the children
(As a backup argument, Marks also contends that one type of relief he seeks under RICO - "disgorgement" - is an "equitable" form of relief, which is not subject to a rigid statute of limitations, but subject only to a more flexible doctrine of time limitation known as "laches. FORTUNE Features
One way to be more equitable is to insure no more than $100,000 in deposits, limited to cover for someone in a 5 year period of time and pegged to their SS Number, and limited further by not allowing someone to get more than $100,000 simply by splitting their deposits among multiple institutions. Foundation continues to crumble (Jack Bog's Blog)
These documents, the button and pages from a newspaper insert, were created by Agunah Inc. and GET (Getting Equitable Treatment), two organizations whose goal was to remedy the problem of agunot (literally, "chained wives"), women whose husbands refuse to grant them religious divorces, known as gittin (singular: get). Rivka Haut: Statement
He hoped an outline deal between a new Equitable board and policyholders' groups might suffice to attract a buyer.
When there is inequitable treatment, you get riots.
One can get vacatur with a settlement, but only on a strong equitable showing. The Volokh Conspiracy » Klein v. Amtrak Opinions, Which Were Removed from Lexis and Westlaw Pursuant to a Settlement:
They are also important tools for building a more democratic and equitable food system, and for generating sustainable growth with equity.
Corruption is essentially a means of depriving other people of their equitable rights by tilting the balance in favour of certain individuals or communities.
Care should be taken, as Equitable with-profits annuitants have been badly hit by the crisis there.
So far, we have been considering what happens if the tenant under an equitable lease assigns his interest.
The 23rd national congress economic transformation resolutions place more emphasis on job creation, equitable spatial development, development of the productive forces and communities and what we called developmental economic growth. Mail & Guardian Online
He has urged them to come to an equitable compromise that gives Hughes his proper due.
Only if the equitable lease prevailed would the landlord's action in distraining be proper.
Not surprisingly Equitable is the butt of a number of witticisms doing the rounds of financial circles, most of them unrepeatable in a family newspaper.
Therefore, this is an equitable assignment which can not be impeached.
It is clear Equitable Life's decision to call a halt to new business has left many policy holders in a quandary.
It is an application for an equitable remedy to protect the plaintiff against the consequences of unconscionable conduct.
That basic services such as water are part of a busket of services which have to be provided for through the equitable share revenue that each municipality receives from national revenue apportionment. STATEMENT ON THE WATER CRISIS AT ETHEKWINI MUNICIPALITY
We urgently need to incentivise the private system to provide capacity that can leverage public investment, in the interests of a more equitable system. The needs of patients necessitates this.
And should there be no check put to this disintegration of society, then must come what the radicals are now so anxious to obtain, the equitable adjustment -- and in that case it is a problem how far that may not be really _equitable_; for society may, by degrees, arrive to a state so anomalous as to warrant that the few should be sacrificed for the benefit of the community at large. Olla Podrida
The outcome must be one that is equitable and balances operational time and respite, and one that is structurally sustainable.
Would it be just and equitable for the respondents to receive no recompense for work done?
How can that be fair or equitable? The Sun
It's Hubbard's contention that eight nations are running the world in a shambolic, criminally inequitable way.
The excessive concern with disincentive effects has resulted in a less equitable system of taxation.
There was still a long way to go towards, among other things, an equitable distribution of skills.
The Equitable debacle has brought renewed accusations of mis-selling and turned a spotlight on the effectiveness of regulation.
Divorce will become more difficult due to the taxes on alimony, while a husband will be freed of all responsibility to maintain equitable treatment of his wives if he engages in polygamy -- in Islam, polygamy is explicitly forbidden in the Quran unless the husband is capable of treating his wives in a perfectly equal fashion. Shayan Ghajar: Iranian Women Poised for Major Setback
Messrs. Quibble and Quirk, attorneys-at-law, beg to offer their professional services at the following fixed and equitable rate, -- they, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
As in inequitable distribution of moneys outrageously held by those who worked for them and ignorantly retained despite the superior claims of those who do not. Minor Familar`s Dictionary
But the rebels introduced an equitable tax system and an agrarian reform program, distributing land to poor villagers.
Its charter commits to 'an effective, equitable, rules-based multilateral trading system', but the bloc has never officially established a free trade zone. Times, Sunday Times
It may well be that the working class first or most severely appreciates the inequitable nature of the world, but disregard for the law can become widespread.
And, to ensure equitable treatment of both pupils and staff, teachers should surely be banned from wearing hoods on their academic gowns on speech day.
They believed that their strategy not only reconciled rapid growth with equitable distribution but made these two apparently contradictory social aims mutually supporting.
A group of 20 golf courses in the eastern region feel they are paying too many other taxes as it is, and are discussing methods to standardize the taxes in a more equitable manner.
This unit will also act as a central point to collect information to challenge unfair, inequitable and unjust practices.
Protocols were established to ensure fair and equitable computer access for those who wanted it.
The onus is on government, institutions and society to work together for a just and equitable social order.
What specific elections have had inequitable results, and what is it about the way these elections are conducted that has gone wrong?
Since rural voters in industrialized countries rely more heavily on fossil fuels than urban voters, our prediction is that malapportioned political systems will have lower gasoline taxes, and less commitment to climate change amelioration, than systems with equitable representation of constituents. Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet
The beneficiaries will acquire an equitable interest and, therefore, an equitable lease. 2.
We think we provide an equitable service to all ranks and all the people we represent.
Ford and Drake say that since women suffer economically much more than men when they get divorced, snagging a good provider is ultimately critical to an equitable settlement.
The current rating system and its computation is both cumbersome and inequitable and we need to lobby for a change.
Halifax is offering to pay ￡500 million for Equitable's asset management business, sales force and systems.
It is an equitable remedy by which the court can enable an aggrieved party to obtain restitution.
This requires a showing that a plaintiff has engaged in inequitable conduct or bad faith with a material relation to the relief sought. Archive 2009-10-01
All anyone can ask for is fair and equitable treatment under the law, and that's what we are not getting.
For these processes to work they must command support, and they will only command support if they are seen as equitable, truly just and fair. Personnel Management: A New Approach
He said the NHS is inequitable in many ways, but that not everyone had access to excellence in health services, and he wanted that to change.
The mortgage gives the mortgagee, of course, that equitable interest in the property as well.
The plaintiff agreed to lease a property to Lunnis, who assigned this equitable lease by way of mortgage.
Many now wished to return and it was fair and equitable that they should be assisted by the state.
Equitable is expected to first devise a draft proposal, designed to buy out the expensive annuity guarantees that the society can no longer afford.
Little brother strange elder brother is too inequitable, disapprobation.
Although the question of whether a defendant should be equitably estopped is generally a question of fact, here, given Putter's level of awareness and subsequent inaction, equitable estoppel is inappropriate as a matter of law ... Personal Injury
The trial decision is about equitable possessory title and the court of appeal said that doesn't exist.
The new programme will be based on clear rules and criteria, ensuring that access is fair and equitable.
Under the Ta'if Accord - the blueprint for national reconciliation - the Lebanese established a more equitable political system, particularly by giving Muslims a greater voice in the political process while institutionalizing sectarian divisions in the government. Background
Do we feel our present taxation system is fair and equitable?
This will provide a more equitable policy framework to allow the development and introduction of cost-effective technological change and innovation.
That seems to me to be both fair and equitable. Times, Sunday Times
I've always made the case that we should not get more than Irish, that would not be fair or equitable.
Any number of equitable interests can be carved out of the equitable ownership of a share.
Our fees are the most sustainable and equitable way of enabling that investment. Times, Sunday Times
Divorce will become more difficult due to the taxes on alimony, while a husband will be freed of all responsibility to maintain equitable treatment of his wives if he engages in polygamy -- in Islam, polygamy is explicitly forbidden in the Quran unless the husband is capable of treating his wives in a perfectly equal fashion. Shayan Ghajar: Iranian Women Poised for Major Setback
Thus to avoid descent into despotism or oligarchy, republics had to possess an equitable distribution of wealth. A Short Guide to Writing About History
fraudulent inducement," warranting "equitable rescission" of the deed to Windermere, and the return of title to MBC. Undefined
It alleged that the transaction was unconscionable, inequitable and unreasonable.
What I think Google needs to do to make that equitable is to also reward the sites that the user visits to make the decision as to what ad it should show. Behavioural advertising should reward niche sites « Squash
He hoped an outline deal between a new Equitable board and policyholders' groups might suffice to attract a buyer.
A more ‘equitable’, though ruined, Venezuela would be a pyrrhic victory indeed.
By letting it continue to happen without litigation they are giving up their rights through equitable principles such as laches and perhaps even some statutes of limitations. A Shot Across the Bow
In Britain, when the damages can't provide enough compensation for the plaintiff, the judge offers interlocutory injunction to them by equitable law.
It applies to all liens, including equitable liens where there may be proprietary interests.
This produces the following devolution of title to the legal estate and the equitable interest.
Thus to avoid descent into despotism or oligarchy, republics had to possess an equitable distribution of wealth. A Short Guide to Writing About History
Support restricted and applied on only one farm per resident farmer would, of course, arrest this and is surely no more than any equitable society would expect.
Economic growth was important, but so too was the equitable distribution of wealth.
Even before the rights of women were "constitutionalized" in 1995, the ruling dictatorship of Meles Zenawi took the lead by issuing a National Policy on Women in 1993 with the aim "to institutionalize the political, economical, and social rights of women by creating an appropriate structure in government offices and institutions so that the public policies and interventions are gender-sensitive and can ensure equitable development for all Ethiopian men and women. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Speaking Truth On Behalf of Ethiopian Women
These cases are the equitable counterpart of common law cases where the principle of res ipsa loquitur is invoked.
Equitable's managing director quit and the group closed its doors to new business.
My concern is that there should be equitable treatment of these cases. Times, Sunday Times
It would be inequitable and inhumane to limit healthcare only to those who have a current or future economic benefit to society.
As this example suggests, the primary purpose of job evaluation is to establish the foundation for a fair and equitable compensation system. Human Resource Management in Government
A Common Law right was practically, though not theoretically, nullified by the existence of a countervailing equitable right.
In this section we discuss two further equitable rules, which the courts have developed for fiduciaries and which they have applied to directors.
It left the old equitable assignment untouched, and it may be used still.
Perhaps you and your co-workers can appeal to your employer for something that is more equitable.
For example your own columns continually describe Equitable as if it is bankrupt, in trouble, or in crisis.
Equitable assignments I turn next to consider the position where part only of a deposit has been assigned.
He called for a fairer and more equitable funding formula to be introduced.
On behalf of Maria Stanciu, her counsel advances two theories in support of the claim for legal and equitable title.
Since the alleged falsity here was “referring to lumber from a tree that is not classified as cedar in a scientific or botanical classification” as cedar, Rainbow had engaged in materially related inequitable conduct. Unclean hands, covered with cedar chips
That the banks have reached a more equitable distribution between their employees and shareholders has shown up in better than expected results. Times, Sunday Times
Britain's financial mutuals, including Standard Life, Nationwide and the Equitable are heading towards stormy annual meetings as members line up to launch attacks on the boards and managements.
We support the (SADC) leaders on their progressive stand of not interfering with Zimbabwean government's position on redressing what gave rise to the struggle for national liberation - namely the repossession of the land for equitable distribution amongst the indigenous people who were robbed of their land by British colonial settlers," he said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Obviously society should have no truck with vexatious or spurious claims, but when people suffer damage to their lives or to their careers it is only equitable that they should be awarded adequate compensation.
(suspectable), occasionally and alternatively used by husband when having writing to do in connection with equitable druids and friendly or other societies through periods of dire want with comparative plenty (thunderburst, ravishment, dissolution and providentiality) to a sofa allbeit of hoarsehaar with Amodicum cloth, hired payono, still playing off, used by the youngsters for czurnying out oldstrums, three bedrooms upastairs, of which one with fireplace (aspectable), with greenhouse in prospect (par-ticularly perspectable). Finnegans Wake
As an annuitant who cannot leave Equitable, I demand that the Penrose report be published in its entirety as soon as possible and that open hearings be granted now.
In the longer term, the only equitable solution is to make the whole region nuclear-free, with no exceptions.
That is the situation in which discredited insurer Equitable Life has found itself.
equitable treatment of all citizens
In public debts, as in private debts, the debtor should make a fair and honest effort to justify the trust imposed in it when it pledged its word and its faith, and the natural complement of a fair and honest attitude on the part of the borrower is a willingness on the part of the creditor to make an equitable settlement with a distressed but conscientious borrower. The Next Five Years in Canada
But this case must be the most flagrant disregard for what is supposed to be a fair and equitable system we have seen.
The Company will be entitled to injunctive or other equitable relief to prevent a violation of this agreement.
He suggested that a committee be struck to examine if there might not be a more equitable way to distribute the provincial berths in the future.
Equitable is also hoping to add a further 2% annual bonus to policies after cutting its expenses and changing its investment policy. Times, Sunday Times
The plaintiff agreed to lease a property to Lunnis, who assigned this equitable lease by way of mortgage.
S. Court of Claims). This court primarily hears money claims against the U. S. government although new equitable jurisdiction has been given to it by Congress.
Still, the new system seems reasonable, equitable and safe. Times, Sunday Times
The contention that "all of the people of Canada" should benefit from the inequitable distribution of mineral and other resources is at best a political euphemism for centralized control of fiscal policy, and hence the ultimatum in Mr. Turner's budgets of last May and November. The Incredible Resource Battle
That the banks have reached a more equitable distribution between their employees and shareholders has shown up in better than expected results. Times, Sunday Times
These targets malfunctioned on at least two stages, especially with 20 gauge ammo, leading to concern about equitable scoring.
As I have attempted to submit in paragraph 5.8, it can constitute an equitable fraud because such a failure results in an improper exaction of income tax to the financial detriment of the taxpayer.
While it may seem equitable to accommodate everybody's needs, this often ends up doing users a disservice.
The Equitable debacle has brought renewed accusations of mis-selling and turned a spotlight on the effectiveness of regulation.
They are also a relatively objective and equitable way of distributing valuable resources. Human Resource Management in Government
If the employer omits to reply, or is evasive or equivocal, the tribunal is entitled to make any inference it considers just and equitable.
Other measures focus on early detection of cancers, augmentation of treatment facilities and establishment of equitable pain control and a palliative care network.
Huge exposure to guaranteed annuities was the main reason for the downfall of discredited insurer Equitable Life, as it had not kept enough reserves to pay them.
Certainly, no good ethical case has been made to justify differential or inequitable treatment on such arbitrary grounds.
It is of course, for the claimants to show that it would be equitable to disapply the limitation period in any particular case and the onus on the individual claimant is a heavy one.
He has urged them to come to an equitable compromise that gives Hughes his proper due.
EU nationals are among those not currently asked to declare criminal convictions, leaving the system open to complaints that it is inequitable.
For benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom, and unrequitable obligation perpetual thraldom, which is to ones equal, hateful. Chapter XI. Of the Difference of Manners
Liddell and Scott in the interpretation of [Greek: pleonexia] itself as only the desire of getting more than our share, may perhaps be bettered by the authority of the teacher, who, declining the appeal made to him as an equitable [Greek: meristês] (Luke xii. 14-46), tells his disciples to beware of coveteousness, simply as the desire of getting more than we have got. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
A number of other equitable principles might well be engaged to achieve a result.
How did it come to pass that such a system grew and flourished where the set up is so head - scratchingly inequitable? Why is Lloyd Blankfein
Other, more general equitable principles might justify the refusal of this discretionary remedy.
Teva's inequitable conduct claim could be on shakier ground following a May 25 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a patent dispute between Abbott Laboratories and Becton Dickinson & Co. Pfizer Goes to Court to Protect Viagra
And we don't need the mass conscription for combat that we had in World War II or the inequitable draft in Vietnam.
Registration was suitable for equitable rights such as restrictive covenants and easements, which must continue to bind the land if they are to benefit those entitled to them.
If there ever was a formula for civil unrest if things become too inequitable, that is it. Secure Parking Lots
In order to help the conferees better define the term ‘equitable,’ the letter suggests that the farm bill negotiators consider the following criteria for a dairy payment program.
[…] En ces moments où nous commémorons le 15ème anniversaire de Génocide des Tutsi et massacres des Hutus démocrates, j'appelle à la conscience de la Communauté internationale de faire preuve de courage pour mettre fin à des situations des violations flagrantes des droits civils et politiques que connaît le Rwanda, notamment le droit d'avoir une justice équitable … Global Voices in English » Rwanda: The unresolved FDLR issue
To be negotiable and have legitimacy, commitments generally need to be perceived to be reasonably fair and equitable.
How can anyone think it fair or equitable to arbitrarily make wholesale changes without my agreement? Times, Sunday Times
In the Government's view, the only practical and equitable solution is to increase the petrol levy.
Emphasis on equitable distribution would truly alleviate the crime situation.
Either by tradition or practice, these widows have been denied their fundamental rights of equitable justice.
In these days of globalisation, the global picture of women is most ignoble and inequitable.
Legal funding serves as important purpose by providing the funds necessary for their plaintiff to continue the case until an equitable settlement is reached – no matter how long it takes.
Her dreams of parenthood, apparently formed while tripping across green New Haven quadrangles on her way to feminist-theory classes, were starkly different: "I had wanted us to be a mother and a father raising children side by side, the man moving into the world of children, the woman into the world of work, in equitable balance, maybe each working flexibly from home, the two making the same world and sharing the same experiences and values. How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement
This set me thinking about the perennial problem of equitable division of household labour.
Each individual perceived some want in his neighbor, and forthwith proceeded to supply this want, _charging just as much for the thing supplied as the desire for the article or his need of it would force the person supplied to pay; without reference to the equitable price, estimated with respect to the labor bestowed in supplying the want_. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
In a Lanham Act case, an unclean hands defense is available when the plaintiff engaged in inequitable conduct relating to the subject matter of its claims. Bikemaker cleans its allegedly dirty hands
What we get instead is an inequitable health system and the widening of the class divide.
The beneficiaries will acquire an equitable interest and, therefore, an equitable lease. 2.
The equitable distribution process is guided by factors like need and fairness.
He says the tax system is both inequitable and inefficient.
the inequitable division of wealth
The result, as the discrepancy in water consumption shows, is neither equitable nor reasonable.
And finally, the en banc Sixth Circuit rejected Secretary Brunner's arguments that the GOP had been guilty of "laches" - an equitable doctrine which basically says that if you've been tardy in asserting your rights, you may have forfeited them. Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Equitable all but collapsed in 2000 and was forced to shut to new business following mammoth losses. The Sun
Yet some forms of outright oppression have been so common in sectors of society that they are viewed as normative and such things as persecution of minorities needs to be addressed or we will never attain the goal of an equitable society. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
It would not be equitable set-off because they are a mixture of liquidated and unliquidated damages that are not flowing from the same transaction.
He has urged them to come to an equitable compromise that gives Hughes his proper due.

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