Sentence examples for common standards of from inspiring English sources

Rhiannon said: "Joyce must realise that this violates the common standards of decency that his constituents would expect.

Though he has relaxed his opposition to affirmative action, he quibbles with the way it is practiced, recommending instead what he calls developmental affirmative action -- programs intended to improve minority performance while upholding common standards of evaluation.

In a 1989 case in Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that executing a juvenile offender did not violate "common standards of decency," or the cruel and unusual punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment.

The jury convicted her not because of anything Larry Stewart said, but for the reason juries are supposed to: there was solid proof that Martha Stewart deliberately violated common standards of honesty and decency, and lied about it when she was caught.

Critics of the dilemma also say, rightly, that the moral norms underpinning a community need not be hard for outsiders to comply with: broad common standards of right and wrong, some agreement on the nature of marriage and the family, respect for law and some consensus about the role of religion in public life.

Adam Roberts anatomised the clunky writing and dodgy structures of Jordan's series in his own equally epic series of reviews, dissecting the first 11 volumes in an effort to understand a literary species that – by any common standards of artistic evolution – should not have survived.

By every common standard of musical drama, the score, running about 2 hours 45 minutes, is too long and placid.

Those men are appealing to some common standard of allowable political discourse that Trump and his followers consider mere evasion.

So the collective residents produced a charter that identified one common standard of estate management with clear lines of responsibility and local accountability.

For my mirror though, I was using strips with individually controllable LEDs - each LED containing a teeny tiny computer, running at the common standard of 5V.

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representatives from many cultures endorsed the rights therein set forth "as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations".