How to Use equal opportunity in a Sentence

equal opportunity

adjective
  • Carr has raised the prospect of reviewing whether the show still fell under the bona fide news exemption of the FCC’s equal opportunity rule.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • So, total transparency, treating them equally, fairly, giving them equal opportunity to race each other.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
  • This sidelines others, granting undue influence to a few and eroding trust, transparency and equal opportunity.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The Democratic Party once drew Jews to its cause because it was seen as the party of tolerance and equal opportunity.
    — Nathan Diament, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • That amendment says that no plan can be drawn to favor or disfavor a political party, along with requiring that districts cannot be drawn to deny equal opportunity to racial minorities.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, fewer of these companies were publicly committed to equal opportunity measures in 2024 than the year prior, the same report found.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 16 June 2025
  • Iger has been a fearless, equal opportunity offender in defending Disney’s corporate character, whether from intrusions by the left or by the right.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This time, Carr cited the FCC’s equal opportunity, or equal time rule, and whether The View is really exempt from it.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The section protects equal opportunity for racial minorities in redistricting.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • True equality should not equate to carving out exclusive zones that sideline most MBA students and potentially skirt equal opportunity laws.
    — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Democrats stand for nothing if not redistribution, regulation of market excesses, equal opportunity and support for the less fortunate.
    — Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Black and brown families in Chicago have been subsidizing the education of students outside city limits for as long as the system has been designed to deprive our own children of equal opportunity.
    — Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Just 40 percent believe that the government explained the election process for parliamentarians clearly and gave everyone an equal opportunity to compete.
    — Salma Al-Shami, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The case arose from a lawsuit brought by two Native American tribes, who argue that North Dakota’s state legislative map denied them an equal opportunity to elect their candidates of choice.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 24 July 2025
  • Emerson found that Corpus prioritized her personal relationship with Aenlle over her duty to make hiring decisions based on merit and equal opportunity.
    — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to limit how a key part of the Voting Rights Act long aimed at protecting equal opportunity for racial minority voters is applied to the drawing of state election maps.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Group’s resources explain how to lawfully implement employee resource or affinity groups, expand applicant recruiting pools, and collect workforce data to analyze barriers to equal opportunity.
    — Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The equal time or equal opportunity rule is a federal rule under the Communications Act of 1934 that requires broadcasters to give political candidates equal time or opportunity as each other.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
  • At issue is whether The View, which is produced by ABC News, qualifies as a bona fide news program and is thus exempt from certain FCC rules, including the equal opportunity or equal time rule.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Some of that change is attributed to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, including a provision aimed at giving racial minorities an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect candidates of their choice.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Mistakes, complaints and promotions The secretary issued several policy memos concurrent with his address aimed at overhauling the inspector general and equal opportunity complaint processes as part of his push to produce more Pattons.
    — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Permissible practices include broadening recruiting strategies to expand candidate pools, and collecting voluntary demographic data on applicants and employees to assess barriers to equal opportunity.
    — Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The museum will highlight the heroes and showcase the art, politics, literature, photography, film, music, posters, artifacts and video created by and for all groups who have fought for, and continue to fight for equal opportunity in New York City and the Northeast.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Following last week’s news of the Kimmel suspension, FCC chairman Brendan Carr said his agency should investigate whether The View is exempt from FCC’s equal opportunity or equal-time rule.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The commander, Michael Pulliam, was placed on leave after filing an equal opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of falsifying crime data, NBC News' local affiliate reported, citing three law enforcement sources.
    — Sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The Social Security Administration, for instance, announced the closing of its Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity, which managed the agency's work on equal opportunity, harassment prevention, and disability services.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 1 Jan. 2026
  • While The Maidstone New Orleans and its sister property, the LDV at the Maidstone East Hampton, share provenance, East Hampton might be described as a playground for the preppy, and New Orleans is more of an equal opportunity party town.
    — Beth D'addono, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025

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