How to Use coequal in a Sentence

coequal

adjective

• The three coequal chiefs of the army, navy and air force have battled it out ever since, often quite heatedly.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
• The Supreme Court sits atop one of three coequal branches of the federal government.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
• Those letters were milder and blamed state lawmakers, not a coequal branch of government.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
• This is a long-standing problem of a coequal branch of government being ignored.
  — Heather Brandon-Smith and Diana Ohlbaum, CNN, 22 June 2021
• The Framers of our Constitution made the Congress and the President coequal branches of government.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2017
• What Taeuber-Arp saw was that abstract forms could serve as coequal elements in a single creative system.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• The argument is ultimately over whether the Council is an agency under the charter, or a separate and coequal branch.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• His wrongdoing strikes at the very heart of our Constitution: a separation of powers, three coequal branches, each a check and balance on the other.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• By the last stages of the book, one patient in particular, the gregarious Tony (a pseudonym), has become nearly a coequal character to O’Connell.
  — Richard Just, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• This is completely disrespectful to us as a coequal branch of government.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 26 June 2019
• All but one of the 67 House Democrats have joined a lawsuit, filed late last month, challenging Abbott’s authority to wipe out funding for a coequal, separate branch of state government.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 6 July 2021
• Kelly said that the General Assembly needs to become a coequal branch of government, and the state Capitol needs to be reopened after being closed to the general public for more than one year.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• The evidence is compelling that President Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection against a coequal branch of government and that the charge rises to the level of high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
  — Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 13 Feb. 2021
• Little precedent exists for whether members of Congress—as officers of a coequal branch of government—must comply.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• These findings have challenged the conventional view of forests as a mere population of trees: Trees and fungi are, in fact, coequal players on the ecological stage, scientists say.
  — Gabriel Popkin, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• And let Congress start acting like the coequal branch of government the Founders intended—and get to the bottom of a story that involves the legitimacy of the presidency, the 2016 election and our federal institutions.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
• All this is to say that Nunes has a fairly revolutionary attitude towards his role as chairman of an oversight committee, and as a member of a coequal branch of government charged with checking the power of the Executive.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 12 Feb. 2018
• Together, the two episodes on either side of the Capitol call into question two basic principles of the American system -- the capacity of a separate coequal branch of government to constrain the presidency and the right to suffrage.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
• Both of these coequal branches of government guard their powers jealously, and typically do not respond kindly to any breaches of those boundaries, perceived or otherwise.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
• Congress, which can impose sanctions through legislation, typically insists on having its own say as a coequal branch of government.
  — Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• So instead of whingy calls for another special counsel, a Congress that behaved as a branch of government coequal to the presidency would use its own powers to force oversight on resisting federal officials.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
• Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, said the decision ignored the constitutional balance of power between the three coequal branches of government.
  — Christen Smith, Washington Examiner, 2 July 2020
• The Constitution created three coequal branches of government and a separation of powers between them.
  — WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• Michel technically outranks von der Leyen in diplomatic protocol, but the two leaders typically receive coequal billing in meetings.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
• When faced with competing demands from coequal branches of government, Don will follow his former client’s instruction, absent a contrary decision from the federal judiciary.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• Only the impartial judgment of the third coequal branch of government can cure the system and both parties of this potentially terminal illness of degrading impeachment into a parliamentary non-confidence motion.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 18 Dec. 2019
• The counterweight to this arrangement isn’t a coequal branch of government but unceasing litigation by the opposition party and its ideological allies.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2019
• Hawpe also led the scorched-earth legislative coverage that turned the General Assembly, once a political doormat, into an independent, coequal branch of government.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2021
• Other provisions would intrude into states’ efforts to ensure the integrity of elections—such a fundamental aspect of sovereignty that erasing it extinguishes states’ status as coequal sovereigns.
  — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Jason Snead, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• For example, if two states, acting as coequal sovereigns, have independently arrived at different policy decisions, and if each seeks to counter the unwelcome policy influence of the other, which side has set the controversy in motion?
  — Matthew Scully, National Review, 11 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024