Sentence examples for like standards from inspiring English sources

I count myself among standardophiles, who like standards for their neatness and because they have the lollipop shape of storybook trees.

I count myself among standard ophiles, who like standards for their neatness and because they have the lollipop shape of storybook trees.

Companies like standards because they know the technology is going to work a certain way, regardless of who built it.

Thébault, who prefers to walk around barefoot, and has spent many nights sleeping on benches in Port Haliguen in Quiberon, France, does not like standards.

Academics make various hand-waving gestures about the different standards of fidelity in the period; standards of likeness, like standards of spelling, were broader then than now.

In addition to the electricity provisions, there are conflicts over a variety of issues like standards on automobile mileage, global warming, hydropower and other energy sources.

The ending proved fitting, since the fight itself took place under a surreal backdrop, even by boxing's circus-like standards, a confluence of crazy-strange to anyone not named Mayweather, but normal, too, given the Mayweather clan's involvement.

Efforts to negotiate Basle-like standards through IOSCO, the international body for securities regulators, have come to nothing.Banks and securities firms have tended to trespass heavily on each others' territory, and most countries are now heading for a single financial regulator, so the differences in the treatment of banks and securities houses have become somewhat moot.

We are not going to allow our public servants to be held to saint-like standards by a bunch of hypocrites.William MillerNew YorkSIR—I am sick of sanctimonious commentators telling me that Mr Clinton in his private life has allegedly broken some unspoken bargain with the American people.

On Friday, he and the education secretary, Arne Duncan, announced a competition for $4.35 billion in federal financing for states that ease restrictions on charter schools and adopt some charter-like standards for other schools — like linking teacher pay to student achievement.

The law requires all abortion clinics to meet hospital-like standards of an ambulatory surgical center and for the clinics to have admitting privileges to a hospital within 30 miles of the center.