Sentence examples for earlier standard from inspiring English sources

The earlier standard had been gender-neutral, or what "a reasonable person" would consider harassment.

Among them: a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in most cases rather than an earlier standard of viability, which was often determined by doctors to be several weeks later.

The F.D.A. licensed hexamethonium as a pill for treatment of high blood pressure in the 1950's, but the manufacturer withdrew it from the market in the 1970's after new laws required that drugs meet both safety and effectiveness standards instead of the earlier standard of safety, said Dr. David Lepay, an F.D.A. official.

CAN 2.0A is the earlier standard with 11 bits of identifier, while CAN 2.0B is the new extended standard with 29 bits of identifier.

Continental-scale ignition and extinction events, however, were detected on average 44 min earlier (standard deviation s.d. = 40 min) and 137 min later (s.d. = 92 min), respectively.

Based on an earlier standard from transaction processing, it represents a simplified version of a typical e-commerce application an electronic book store.

The ease of China's earlier standards was probably one reason for the deluge in applications, agencies said.

Some food industry analysts expect many more requests as companies dust off old research that may not have met earlier standards, which required broad scientific consensus.

His direct, terse style, seemingly drab by earlier standards, was the perfect vehicle for his sharp, unsentimental portrayal of people living economically and emotionally depressed lives.

In fact, American banks may have emerged from the crisis more quickly in part because regulators were slow to apply earlier standards that proved faulty.

This capacity is vital in our own time, when leaders must often change course midstream — jettisoning earlier standards of success and redefining their purposes and plans.