It is calling for farm workers to be put on an equal footing with other employees in South Africa, and is urging the big international supermarket chains to put pressure on suppliers to improve working conditions.

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The idea was partly symbolic: to put Islam on an equal footing with the officially represented Jewish and Christian faiths.

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She said nurses should be put on at least an equal footing with police officers and other public servants who earn more.

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This would put stocks and bonds on an equal footing and slow the substitution of debt for equity.

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Two attempts were made to put stocks and bonds on an equal footing in the tax code, in 1977 and 1984.

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The DRC is also pressing for a new equality act to put all discrimination law on an equal footing as part of a "quantum leap" in anti-prejudice measures.

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The change to BlackBerry also brought the introduction of BB 10, a more advanced and modern operating system that aims to put the smartphone pioneer on an equal footing with the likes of iOS and Android, OSes that have robbed it of a good deal of market share with BlackBerry's efforts apparently focused elsewhere.

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Such an arrangement would put those responsive to multinational stockholders on an essentially equal footing with government agencies responsible for the national security.

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The loan put her on equal financial footing with an ex-husband who refuses to pay mandated child support and has dragged out the case for three years with endless appeals.

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