Sentence examples for a standard against from inspiring English sources

But Watergate lives on as a standard against which to judge or misjudge scandals.

But Rome was a standard against which to measure other cultures, including our own.

One place stands out as offering a standard against which all others can be measured - it is not a country but a city.

The symphony premiered on December 22, 1808, in Vienna, and it soon became a standard against which many other symphonies were measured.

It can serve as a standard against which existing institutions are to be judged and as an objective toward which society should move.

And perhaps most important, the channel would provide a standard against which Arabs could measure their own political systems -- which are notable for their distinct lack of transparency and accountability.

The system was trained using data from 623 clinical encounters and validated using a clinical expert as a gold standard against a mutually exclusive set of 901 records.

For absolute quantification, the AmCyan transcript levels were normalized against EGFP and compared with a standard curve against the AmCyan-carrying #443 plasmid.

Filter validation depends on the availability of a "gold standard" – a reference standard against which to establish the performance of the filter.

Once again this raises the question of whether there is a reliable standard against which a new technology can be compared.

Search filters or hedges play an important role in evidence-based medicine but their development depends on the availability of a "gold standard" – a reference standard against which to establish the performance of the filter.