Sentence examples for hard standard from inspiring English sources

This turns out to be a hard standard to maintain, even for a historian like Montefiore.

But the comparisons to "60 Minutes" were rarely complimentary; "It's a very hard standard to match," Mr. Hartman said.

Mr. McMahon conceded that the case against Mr. Cummings represents a "hard standard" to prove in court, but that it was far from contrived.

The 5-to-4 decision shifted the burden of proof under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act so that older workers have to show their age was the deciding factor in an adverse employment decision — an unfairly hard standard to meet.

Whereas Washington would like to boycott any meeting in which a member of Hamas is present, the realities of diplomacy may make that a hard standard to maintain.

To successfully avoid becoming pregnant before, after or between those two births, either she will have had to refrain from having sex, or she or her partner will have had to practice contraception effectively for an average of about 25 years a hard standard of behaviour to live up to, even for the most disciplined and highly motivated individuals" [ 3].

Pushy parents have usually got kids in schools where, because they are pushing hard, standards rise".

But there are no hard standards for how much radiation is too much.

However, there are no hard standards for the order of authorship.

Laboratory control water consisted of deionized water amended to US EPA moderately hard standards (80-100 mg.L-1 CaCO3) and 200 μl/L methanol was used as solvent carrier.

I had tried to continue living by that creed, but it had become an ever-harder standard to maintain.