11.   Republicans said that Lott was simply trying to put the plan to end the tobacco program on the same parliamentary footing as a proposal to continue it.

12.   The bill would also protect the assets of state and local government pension plans from creditors, putting them on the same footing as business and nonprofit pension plans.

13.   The idea, he said, is to allow faith-based organizations to compete for federal grants on the same footing as non-faith-based groups.

14.   This language plainly intends to place arbitration clauses upon the same footing as all other contractual clauses.

15.   Three years ago it was Dole leading the charge to put public television on the same footing as the commercial system.

16.   U.S. officials argue that this inability makes it impossible for UPS to compete on the same footing against Mexican firms for express-mail customers south of the border.

17.   Under the change, such firms will be on the same footing with corporations when it comes to using cash or stock as currency, at least theoretically.

18.   Which means the US is finally on the same footing at Olympus as their global rivals are.

19.   Yet he is reluctant to support an economic embargo because that puts an African nation on the same footing as Iran, a supporter of international terrorism.

20.   You see how hard these countries are trying to put themselves on the same footing with the United States, and how little they spend on consumer pleasures.