Sentence examples for conflicting standards from inspiring English sources

That the war over conflicting standards of courtesy and behavior is being fought on airliners isn't surprising, Ms. Rutledge said, because people feel a powerlessness boarding an airplane.

Republicans and Democrats took to the Senate floor on Wednesday in a passionate debate over the measure, which supporters said would clarify a jumble of conflicting standards and cast a new spotlight on the treatment of detainees at American prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba.

But, in recent weeks, the juxtaposition of their unrelated cases has offered a starting point to ruminate on such questions as conflicting standards of moral judgment in Europe and the United States and whether celebrity, art, money or power might offer exemption from ordinary justice.

Whether it works or not depends on the specific combination of the sender's and receiver's handsets, operators and so on a telling illustration of the gulf between America and Europe in wireless communications.For while the mobile telephone has quietly been assimilated into European culture, in America it has been held back by industry fragmentation and a quagmire of conflicting standards.

Fortunately, we are leaving the era when this is necessarily true, a confusing transitional era with a jumble of conflicting standards: which color space?

The process encourages coherence to avoid overlapping and conflicting standards.

Conflicting technical standards and various copyright laws have left e-book readers waiting on the library steps after the library itself has closed.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that conflicting city standards for building safety might have contributed to fears of widespread evictions from illegal lofts in Brooklyn.

Free, on-the-go viewing is common just about everywhere except the United States and Europe, where operator resistance and a maze of conflicting technical standards and program licensing hurdles have kept the technology out of the global mainstream.

"The benefits of a common platform are that it makes it easier and less expensive for retailers to adopt and install the systems without having to deal with individual operators and conflicting technical standards".

Of course, there are high hurdles to clear before all this great stuff happens complex rights agreements, conflicting technology standards and the sometimes fractious relationship between carriers and content providers but everyone involved has a stake in making it work.