Sentence examples for a standard life from inspiring English sources

Jerome Loving's "Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens" (California; $21.95) is among the most recent runs at Twain, and bids fair, as they used to say, to be a standard life.

And they argued that technology products have a standard life cycle: in their infancy, the sheer cost of new technology makes products prohibitively expensive and available only to elites; as a technology develops, prices are driven down, allowing products to be widely adopted; and finally, the product differentiates to serve the tastes of narrow market segments.

The jury was left to choose between sentencing him to a standard life sentence, with the chance (though hardly the likelihood) of parole after twenty years, and the much harsher sentence that he has now received — under the legal circumstances, the harshest sentence the jury could impose.

The reader quickly gets under the skin of this idiosyncratic, humorous loner "with an irascible temper and flat English feet"—a man for whom duty was paramount and a standard life not an option: "I wanted something out of the ordinary, something that had no right to work, something ridiculous or downright dangerous".

We computed YLL using a standard life table[ 5, 12].

The use of endotracheal intubation for respiratory support of critically ill patients is a standard, life saving form of therapy.

During a standard life-story interview, people describe phases of their lives as if they were outlining chapters, from the sandlot years through adolescence and middle age.

The age-interval specific number of deaths (n D x ), average age of death (n a x ), standard life expectancy (  n e x s ), and years of life lost (n Y x ) are shown.

The YLL is based on comparing the age of death to an external standard life expectancy curve, and can incorporate time discounting and age weighting.

Mr. Ghosn said Nissan expected to sell at least one million units of the Leaf in its first six years — considered a model's standard life cycle — and recoup the company's investment within that period.

STANDARD LIFE, a 175-year-old Scottish insurer, has presided as regally and solidly over Edinburgh's financial industry as the capital's castle has over the streets below.