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A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.
Hassan Rouhani
Respect
Rights
Achieve
Diplomacy
Approach
Address
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Objectives
Constructive
Shared
Counterparts
Footing
Equal
Concerns
Mean
Means
Engaging
Basis
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
Carl Lewis
Game
Blame
People
Political
Enemies
Fed
Fed Up
Counterparts
Up
Officials
Elected
Elected Officials
Playing
Treating
Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.
Fabrizio Moreira
Work
Freedom
You
Entrepreneur
Think
Easier
Someone
Give
Schedule
Counterparts
Mistaken
Tied
Course
Greater
Does
Than
Fixed
Going
Being
Your
Who
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
Tarja Halonen
Creative
Learning
Women
Opportunity
Thrive
Only
Potential
Finland
Counterparts
Male
Common
Century
Use
Full
Guaranteed
We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s.
Alexandra Adornetto
Maturity
Wait
Will
Girl
Research
Teenage
Teenage Girls
Relationships
Our
Faced
Counterparts
Reach
Know
Until
Forced
Ready
Male
Males
Up
Intense
Want
Meaningful
Grow
Grow Up
For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.
Anand Gopal
Reputation
Worldly
More
Had
Counterparts
Taliban
Educated
Years
Than
Often
Being
Fighters
Farmers
Who
Illiterate
No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.
Anita Elberse
Analog
Online
More
Variety
No-One
Counterparts
Offer
Than
Much
Businesses
Disputes
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
Anna Maria Chavez
Fluid
Adapting
Too
Nimble
Our
Corporate
Rigid
Environment
Counterparts
Than
Bureaucratic
Often
Capable
Viewed
Less
Agree
Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.
Arancha Gonzalez
World
Thrive
Pay
Increase
Markets
Focused
More
Tend
Higher
Counterparts
Like
Sub-Saharan
Sub-Saharan Africa
Wages
Than
Manage
Africa
Places
Productive
Productivity
Exporting
Even
We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive.
Burgess Owens
Army
Battle
Beginning
Confederate
White
Unlike
Alive
Would
Would-Be
Volunteer
Counterparts
Massachusetts
Read
Courageous
Understood
Quarter
South
Infantry
Offered
Captured
March
Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the service arena - such as domestic workers - are not valued for their work, making pennies on the dollar compared to male counterparts; and, women are disproportionately affected by family reunification policies.
Christine Pelosi
Work
Service
Family
Women
Minority
Valued
Immigrant
Immigrants
Pennies
Born
Arena
Counterparts
Employment
Majority
Policies
Reunification
Making
Dollar
Affected
Male
Domestic
Women Are
Native
Workers
Who
Compared
Disproportionately
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
Christopher Hitchens
Saying
Mars
Invasion
Both
Counterparts
Surely
Reagan
His
Soviet
Against
Ronald Reagan
Used
Unite
Alarm
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
Dee Dee Myers
Justice
Fight
Women
Conflict
Champion
Research
Promote
More
Both
Environment
Counterparts
Likely
Democratic
Protect
Advocate
Nonviolent
Male
Women Are
Families
Than
Republican
Social
Social Justice
Bills
Initiate
Resolution
Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
Eliot Schrefer
School
Unprepared
Students
Counterparts
Leave
Test
Educations
Familiar
Which
Public
Standardized
Public School
Innately
Elite
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton
Women
Burden
Men
White
Enormous
Carried
Carry
Counterparts
Perhaps
Greater
Than
African-American
African-American Women
Many
One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.
Georg Stanford Brown
Work
Great
You
Opportunity
Black
Minority
Somewhere
Other
Out
One Of The Things
One Thing
Constantly
Folks
See
Some
About
Counterparts
Performance
Know
Because
Coming
Going
Just
Being
Much
Really
Your
Deep
Keep
Actor
Thing
Things
Flow
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.
George Ayittey
Strong
Seriously
Will
Unlike
Sun
Evoke
Rising
Steal
Cast
Take
Attempt
Misguided
Counterparts
Hot
Votes
Hours
Reaction
Line
Ballots
Western
Queue
Up
Very
Any
Patiently
African
Them
Elections
Early
Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.
Gerry Schwartz
Money
Pay
Guys
Counterparts
Well
Make
Does
Equity
Still
Private
Lot
Up
Very
Grew
Working
Who
Number
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
James A. Forbes
People
Thrive
Power
White
Relation
Way
See
Blacks
Given
Color
Counterparts
Between
Attentive
Historical
Survive
Want
To Survive
Themselves
Required
Whites
Even
Differential
LaGuardia Airport is tiny compared to its sleek modern counterparts, like Atlanta or Denver with their endless parallel runways spread over thousands of acres.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Airport
Parallel
Thousands
Atlanta
Counterparts
Over
Like
Spread
Denver
Endless
Modern
Tiny
Acres
Compared
In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.
Jessica Valenti
Time
Me
Young
Older
Obama
Counterparts
Over
Voted
Hillary
Democratic
Hillary Clinton
Feminist
Clinton
Traitor
Barack
Barack Obama
Who
Many
There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.
Jessica Williams
Positive
You
Side
Extroverted
Introvert
More
Pick
Counterparts
Lot
Up
Than
Being
Really
Your
Things
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
Jodi Picoult
Dreams
Family
Gay
You
People
Politicians
Believe
Plotting
Would
Religious
Hopes
Religious Leaders
Some
Counterparts
Instead
Leaders
Demise
Concerts
Idol
Traditional
Traditional Family
American
Same
Children
American Idol
Straight
Video
Mow
Watch
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
John Tyndall
World
Thought
Incomplete
Fact
Counterparts
Until
Proven
Been
Flashes
Brightest
Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.
Jonathan Zittrain
Work
Buy
Music
Digital
Own
Books
Physical
Ongoing
Rather
Consumers
Counterparts
Contract
Than
Often
Different
Copies
I think I am still underpaid. I want to make as much money as my male counterparts.
Kangana Ranaut
Money
Think
Counterparts
Make
Underpaid
Am
Still
Male
Want
As Much Money
Much
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