Sentence examples for exercising double standards from inspiring English sources
We're all guilty of exercising double standards when faced with celebrity wrongdoing.
The conventional wisdom has traditionally depicted refs as exercising double standards -- cutting slack to home teams and superstars on the one hand, nursing vendettas on the other.
McDonnell claimed the party was exercising double standards in suspending Draper while allowing long-time party donor Lord Sainsbury to remain a member, despite having given more than £2m to the Liberal Democrats.
According to Xing Hongbo, a Chinese expert on military law who was quoted by the China News Service, more than 20 countries, including America, Canada, Australia and Japan, have set up similar zones, extending beyond their sovereign airspace.Fu Xiaodong, another military and legal expert cited in the same article, said America was "exercising double standards".
The result of this simplistic thinking was to turn American foreign policy into a sustained exercise in hypocrisy and double standards: we declared ourselves the world's guarantor of freedom, while ignoring or explaining away Mubarak's repression in Egypt, the Central Asian dictatorships that gave us basing rights, and our own misdeeds and misbegotten policies in the war on terror.
"Americans don't like double standards.
Do not display double standards.
"Quit the double standards".
Foreigners claim double standards.
Double standards are always unfair.
