"leading standards" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the best or most important set of principles or criteria in a particular field or industry. Example: "Our company strives to meet the leading standards in sustainability, ensuring that our business practices have a positive impact on the environment."
Ridge has also been the leading standard-bearer for zinfandel, which has likewise followed a serpentine path of styles.
We have a Green Label Plus program that evaluates for V.O.C.'s and the presence of 79 different chemicals to ensure compliance with California's Indoor Air Quality Program, which is recognized around the country as being the leading standard.
Though Sprint was at the center of yesterday's announcement, the deal was part of an intense campaign by Intel to combat a series of patents held by Qualcomm, the company that has been a leading standard-setter in mobile technologies.
When the Obama administration introduced just that sort of stimulus this year, partly on the advice of Mr Samuelson's nephew, Larry Summers, who is Mr Obama's chief economic adviser, he was quick to approve.Though regarded as America's leading standard-bearer for Keynesian economics, he called himself a "cafeteria Keynesian", just picking the bits he liked.
iPad supports ePub out of the box, overcoming publishers' resistance to having to support a proprietary format such as Kindle's; and creating compatibility with books sold through a leading standard format through any channel.
On Labour's return to government, Benn - pictured below at the 1976 party conference singing The Red Flag - was the leading standard-bearer for socialism in the cabinet and an ardent advocate of the state ownership of industry.
Both before and after shortening, the ratio between the effective mass of the fundamental mode and the total mass is approximately 20%, leading standard pushover analysis methods not to be appropriate for estimating the seismic demand.
Indeed data was of a similar quality to that of the Canny edge-detector, which is considered as a leading standard in edge detection [Basu, M., 2002. Gaussian-based edge-detection methods a survey. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. C Appl. Rev. 32, 252 260].
