Sentence examples for former standards from inspiring English sources

This is not "literary", or poetic by his former standards.

I bet Sir Alistair Graham, the former standards chairman, who always pops up on TV on these occasions, would like that too.

Labour is considering referring the transcript of the remarks to the Press Complaints Commission, and the former standards watchdog Sir Alistair Graham has accused the Tories of entrapment.

It is what prompted him to leave his eminent perch at the Daily Telegraph this week and denounce its perceived lapse from former standards in covering the HSBC scandal.

By his former standards, Djokovic has actually been quite reasonable about his scheduling this season, but his end-of-year struggles only throw into sharper relief the magnitude of Federer's achievements in his years of dominance in 2004, 2006 and 2007, when he managed to maintain his edge into November.

For the last decade, Shopsin's has carried on at the Essex Street Market, on the Lower East Side, in a corner stall the size of a doll's house and with a menu that is modest by its former standards and extravagant by anyone else's.

The Americans finished in 5 minutes 55.50 seconds, 1.05 seconds lower than the former standard.

One Democrat who has not found these comparisons particularly amusing is the former standard-bearer himself, the original Michael Dukakis.

But Harrison has a mentor to call on: Andy Roddick, the retired former standard-bearer of American men's tennis.

Rana Talwar, the former Standard Chartered head, praises Mr. Gupta's "charisma, leadership qualities and impeccable reputation".

Subsequent collaboration with Gilbert, in Utopia Limited (1893) and The Grand Duke (1896), did not reach their former standard.