The view in Berlin is that the new French president did not level with his audiences.
But there is a concern across the political spectrum that the playing field is not level right now.
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But the fact is that the playing field was not level at our nation's founding, and continues to be horribly skewed.
The frozen lake not level but mounded along the shore, as if the waves had turned to ice in the act of falling.
"One of the problems we have is that because of apartheid... playing fields are not level and black business need partnership with established businesses where skills can be transferred, " he added.
But Sallie James, a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute here, says the labor standards are largely a symbolic issue for Democrats and will not level the playing field, as some claim.
But, Michel, unless we all do our genealogy, we're not going to find heroes like Julius Caesar Tamain, because he's not on the level of Du Bois and he's not on the level of Booker T.
Most of those buying decisions are being made at the national level, not local level.
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But note that it is the level of prices and not the level of inflation that falls.
The compact affirms that immigration enforcement should be handled at the federal level, not the state level.
You as a customer can use SQL and standard tools with Oracle applications, and the environment is secure (you can query, integrate, and backup the cloud at the database level, not the application level).
Note that we are talking about the growth rate of profits, not the level of profits.
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Although a comparable disparity in wealth existed before 2007 there was not this level of discussion.
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So are we to conclude that these groups support trade secret protection at the federal level but not at the state level?
This would not only level the playing field, but it would give us the ability to lower rates and make American companies more competitive internationally.
They were, however, unfortunate not to level when Yossi Benayoun beat Atletico goalkeeper David de Dea - but his effort was wrongly ruled out for offside.
"We are at a huge disadvantage to clubs down south but we are expected to compete in what is not a level playing field, " he added.
Levels of EVA Momentum ordinarily are quite small, which is to be expected given that it is the change in economic profit not the level divided by sales.
The economy added an average 181, 000 jobs a month in 2012, more than in 2011 but still not the level needed to quickly bring down unemployment.
We might also say that it is the process of economic growth itself that makes us happy, not the level of wealth that we enjoy as a result.
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More likely, his firm devolved into a Ponzi scheme only when serious losses hit and he decided not to level with investors but to gamble on a resurrection.
In the alternative view, an elite coterie of self-righteous academics seek not to level the playing field but to dominate it, imposing their particular world view on everyone else.
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Health department official Fergal Bradley said the recruitment process was in train and would show whether or not the level of remuneration was enough to attract the right candidate.
However, at the lower end of the market the main impediment to buying a home is not the level of interest rates but the requirement to pay a deposit, typically 20% of the purchase price.
But just as with his predecessor-but-one, Shinzo Abe who while in office claimed, despite copious evidence and depositions from the victims themselves, that Japan's military had not forced women into prostitution few doubt that at an emotional if not intellectual level, Mr Aso holds views very similar to the general's.
What the Bank of England is and should be watching, however, is not the level of house-prices but the level of borrowing: a substantial fall in house-prices now will be far better than an escalation of debt to levels that would result in a prolonged deflationary slump such as that experienced by Japan and other Asian countries.
The 7.8-percentage-point increase drove optimism to an unusually high level, but not an extraordinarily high level.
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