Sentence examples for collapse of standards from inspiring English sources

While some saw such series as Ellen as an important breakthrough, others saw it as another example of the collapse of standards on television.

The collapse of standards in the public education system, once among the world's best, have precipitated an epidemic of antisocial behavior among urban youth.

He claimed there had been a "total collapse of standards and systems at the World Service which has a special and particular duty of care to the truth".

And modern jeremiads about the collapse of standards obviously resonate with the rhetoric of the culture wars, at least in the academic theater of operations.

This is yet another recipe for a collapse of standards because of pressures to pass students without requiring proof of learning.

And back in 2005, as shadow leader of the Commons, he was described as the jackal of the Tory Party who ruthlessly and persistently pursued what he considered breaches of ethics and the collapse of standards.

With its stupid remarks leading nowhere, its noisy, trivial self-dramatization, the little gathering marks a collapse of the standards of social conduct.

The trials were supposed to be about the collapse of accounting standards and the way huge stock option grants can corrupt executives.

Bill Plympton furthers the collapse of academic standards with one particularly rousing scene in his gleefully outrageous animated feature "Hair High," showing young viewers some new places to hide crib notes when taking exams.

Many people lament bitterly the collapse of moral standards in China, seeing this new preoccupation with material advantage as the downside of our rapid economic growth during the last 30-odd years.

"If you grow up in a country where arbitrary rule leads to the total ruin of society, the suppression of free markets leads to the collapse of living standards, of course you're going to grow up a libertarian," he said.