A noble pair of brothers. [Lat. , Par nobile fratum. ]
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. . . . The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.
The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.
It's not possible that women can be at par with men.
Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.
I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound.
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury
I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole.
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.
The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters. So it was a great thrill to play there.
Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?
Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt. . . the first one went too far!
I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.
We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which a nation-wide usury rises like a Golem (a created monster) with a million hands on a million throats, to choke the honor and the freedom-of-movement of a hard-working people.
The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
When it came to all around ring generalship, Benny Valgar was on a par with Benny Leonard, though Leonard packed the better punch
Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.
