Like us, they could only posit a standard of progress.
The federal law tells states that they must measure the success of ethnic and other smaller groups within a student body, and it sets a standard for "adequate yearly progress," but states come up with standards for judging success on their own.
In fact, I defend a model of political rule -- meritocracy on top, democracy on the bottom, with room for experimentation in between -- that I hold as a standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in China.
The mark sets a standard for public and private sector catering backed by inspection, with the aim of incentivising caterers to progress towards more sustainable menus.
It's the standard's standard, a pennant for progress.
They have convinced me in ways that other child welfare agencies haven't that they can be held to very high standards for progress, for speed and for results".
The report on Iraq that was presented there, while scarcely a glowing assessment, was noticeably rosier than a draft version that began to circulate last week, which found that Iraq had fallen short on 13 of the 18 standards for progress, partly meeting two.
While the leadership has repeatedly said it will not cut off money for military operations, senior Democratic officials said lawmakers were considering whether to add conditions to spending bills to force the administration to meet certain standards for progress or change in Iraq.
About damn time, but thanks to decades of idiocy in the war on drugs, we've got some bargain-basement standards for progress.
The company offers many standard reasons for progress – online investment, wider ranges, better infrastructure, blah, blah – but founder Julian Dunkerton deserves a nod for recognising two years ago that it would best to hire an old hand to instal some basic nuts and bolts of retailing.
Along with standard information for progress reports, the content of such reports would include registry-specific information such as how the registry is being managed, who has access, the evolution of the population (i.e., enrolments and withdrawals), and the source(s) of funding of the registry.
