With his team 244 away from even achieving parity, any decent score in this situation was worth at least twice if not more than the hundred he made against the hapless West Indies at his beloved Headingley earlier this summer.

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The phrase, although not new, has become a battle cry for Democrats this campaign season, used to criticize Republican-backed policies that could negatively affect access to abortion and contraception, how violence against women is prosecuted and even gender parity in the workplace.

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Parity signals an even distribution of talent, not a lack of it.

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Even though the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 was passed and signed into law, it has yet to be fully implemented?

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On its own, educational parity even superiority is not enough.

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The visitors also admirably buried the ghosts of Twickenham 2005 and Marseille 2007, gaining parity up front and even winning a scrum penalty in the second half.

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Adjusted for variations in purchasing power parity, the ascent of emerging markets is even more impressive: the International Monetary Fund forecasts that the total GDP of emerging markets could overtake that of the developed economies in 2014.

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"It's not a crime to think the stock could trade at parity to the sum of its parts--or even at a premium to that, " he maintains.

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But even with the objections of billionaire owners, an expanded Champions League would be a step towards the parity and Financial Fair Play initiative that Platini himself has advocated.

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