Verb (used with object), : to equalize tax burdens. ,to equalize a rate of production.    From Dictionary.com. 

The SA Human Rights Commission had noted this week that the government's attempts to "equalise" education had not produced equality of outcomes, he pointed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The proposal to "equalise" constituencies was in the Conservative manifesto - while the Lib.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

How for example do you equalise council tax rates?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a pickle over council mergers] Reference

MAYHEM ERUPTS as Pool equalise in a space of 6mins.    From Wordnik.com.  [whiteplum Diary Entry] Reference

'The Tories decided to equalise the state pension age at 65.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuts will not save money fast enough] Reference

It also contained proposals to equalise opportunities for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It would cost R1,3 billion to equalise salaries and conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And the only way to equalise different circumstances of birth is through education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs] Reference

Overall, this strategy would help equalise incomes as well as improve living standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the Alliance Summit] Reference

Alexander said South Africa had to equalise its 11 official languages for the sake of democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For this reason the foundation had appealed to the commission to equalise matters before starting its work.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

A great amount of evil does not necessarily require an equivalent amount of good to equalise the balance. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Sword Of Power]

I offer it merely as a practical result of the effort to equalise and extend the story-hour throughout the schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference

So when you equalise the two balloon system there is not enough pressure to keep the small un-stretched one inflated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Balloon Surprise » E-Mail] Reference

Benefits will be allocated in a way which will equalise the distribution of resources and opportunities in our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [READY TO GOVERN] Reference

"By blindly amalgamating whole towns and communities in a bid to equalise the playing field is short-sighted and naive.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Education, had conveniently distanced himself from all progressive measures taken by Bengu to equalise the education system.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Legislation intended to equalise the age of eligibility for the state old age grant between men and women has been tabled in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

However, people lived up to their incomes and to equalise tax suddenly meant many government servants would "face disaster".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Grant is extended from 14 up to 15 years and a programme to equalise the pensionable age for men and women has been outlined.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

Our economic policies aim to both stimulate economic growth and equalise the distribution of income between population groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-Racialism in Action Acknowledging the past, Changing the present, Building the future] Reference

Reducing men's retirement ages is an acceptable way through which to equalise the state pension age, said Old Mutual on Wednesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There was a need to equalise resources throughout the force, and to this end a demographic study of the various regions was necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This process aims to equalise resourcing for electrification and capacity for maintaining electricity distribution between municipalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic transformation] Reference

He wanted to equalise incomes and abolish every vestige of class-privilege, from the House of Lords to first-class compartments on trains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)] Reference

The government's economic policies aim to both stimulate economic growth and equalise the distribution of income between population groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

These wily fellows instantly consented to the task, and placed themselves alternately between each Frenchman, apparently, to equalise the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference

"Oh, science would step in and equalise that," returned Christopher, hastily quoting from some handbook and went on to further expound his creed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

Physical work of this kind admits of accurate measurement, and I was careful to equalise the average of these experimental comparative fortnights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference

In walking, the arms should move freely by the side -- they act like the fly-wheel of an engine, to equalise the motion of the body, and to balance it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference

This caused Ailill's possessions to exceed Medb's, and to equalise matters she determined to secure the great Dun Bull, who alone equalled the White-horned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference

The elimination of formal segregation in the major social services, and moves to equalise spending between historically white suburbs and black communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic transformation] Reference

Various changes have been made from time to time in the area of both in attempts to equalise the duties of their Bishops, and to meet other altering conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference

Our ECD programme aims to ensure that the care of infants and children is paramount and we thus aim to equalise the subsidy at a minimum of R9 per child per day in each province.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

These include engaging in the policy setting processes to equalise power relations in society in terms of the command of resources and in determining participation in the society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contents] Reference