Sentence examples for inflexible standards from inspiring English sources

But we, as African Americans, are also guilty of drafting our own inflexible standards and mythology, choking out individualism and creative freedom in the name of "progress".

29 64 65 This was illustrated in Clover with respect to drug review, where a tightly automated repeat prescribing routine was linked to the assumption that it is solely the doctor's job to check overdue drug review dates before signing (and that this is inherently safer) and to a wider organisational culture where technology and inflexible standards were highly valued.

It almost certainly means picking a static, inflexible standard.

He said: "It isn't accurate to say that there is some strict and inflexible standard in the law drafted by people who have no real understanding of the reality of managing redundancy or insolvencies.

We need open doors that encourage people to get help for their problems, whether it is for illegal or legal drugs, and not insist on inflexible and rigid standards that produce more failure and low self-esteem while driving people away from life-saving programs.

Even close companions did not relish his austerity, and associates tolerated but did not approve of his inflexible living standards.

For more than two decades, environmental law and regulation was dominated by command-and-control approaches -- typically either mandated pollution control technologies or inflexible discharge standards on a smokestack-by-smokestack basis.

When the first president of the University of Florida, Andrew Sledd, was not re-appointed for the 1909 1910 school year because of a conflict over what the new governor and members of the Florida Board of Education believed were Sledd's inflexible admissions standards that were impeding the growth of the university, Murphree's name was once again advanced as a replacement.

Recent research has reinforced Sykes's results and has also found that that those who are incarcerated develop disciplined and habitual behaviors and subscribe to an inflexible structure of standards that are mandated by an unbending environment (de Viggiani 2007).

Not to do so makes the standard inflexible, but taking personal factors into account increases the scope for subjective — and prejudiced — judgments.

Many myths have been circulated since this proposal was first introduced, and all of them are focused on misleading workers in order to keep our business environments operating under an inflexible and outdated standard.