Sentence examples for before the standards from inspiring English sources

"This has all to do with the standards; we didn't do this before the standards," he said.

Why has New York decided to subject students to these exams well before the standards have been fully implemented in the classrooms?

Officials of Strauss Creamery in California said they had used antibiotics on their organic calves before the standards and wanted to continue.

Before the standards became mandatory, grid operators were asked whether they were in compliance with recommended standards, and they generally answered yes.

That was before the standards, testing and homework movements swept the country, with dire consequences for everyone in my family and virtually all our friends, neighbors and acquaintances.

He was sent before the standards board 27 times in his four-year stint on the council, but escaped without censure on all but one occasion, when he compared a council solicitor to a maggot.

His sentencing is set for July 30th, and federal prosecutors want at least seven years.Before the standards committee, Mr Traficant refused to change his defence.

Before, the standard bed frame blocked the way to the back door of the one-story house.

Before the standard morality and accompanying love story kick in, the film offers a refreshingly jaundiced view of marriage and a few sexually frank moments.

Bossi refused to endorse a plan to abolish Italy's time-in-work pension entitlements, which allow for retirement before the standard pensionable age – the sticking point behind the brawl in parliament.

That promotional rate is good for the first year, before the standard pricing kicks in.