Sentence examples for maintained a double standard from inspiring English sources

In the debate, State Department officials argued that any accord that allowed the Mujahedeen Khalq to keep its weapons would make the Bush administration vulnerable to charges that it maintained a double standard on terrorism, with exemptions available to groups battling targets like Iran, which the White House has called part of an "axis of evil".

"There is no way this violence can end and we achieve peace if the government has maintained a double standard of voicing out support for dialogue and at the other time sabotaging it," Shehu Sani, a human-rights lawyer with the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, said recently in a statement.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet "There is no way this violence can end and we achieve peace if the government has maintained a double standard of voicing out support for dialogue and at the other time sabotaging it," Shehu Sani, a human-rights lawyer with the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, said recently in a statement.

Bassim Haidar, founder and CEO of Channel IT Group, a United Arab Emirates based telecommunications company with wide holdings in Africa, offered an alternative analysis that implicated consumers, suggesting that they maintained a double standard on surveillance — willfully turning over their data time and again to corporations while complaining about governments compiling similar information.

He said he was particularly unhappy with the United States, which he accused of maintaining a double standard on human rights.

General Beg's comments reflect the view in some corners of Pakistan that the United States maintains a double standard when it comes to Muslim countries and nuclear weapons.

But a majority of young men maintain a double standard: They want to date and have intercourse with a woman from their own social class (rather than a prostitute), but they also want to marry a virgin.

Cyril Connolly, formerly of the Observer, once wrote that "the great difficulty in reviewing new novels is to maintain a double standard – one to judge novels as fiction and the other as literature.

Nevertheless, the Obama administration maintains a double standard for apologies to the families of drone victims.

But the Republican's upcoming visit to the top-rated "Tonight Show" in the closing weeks of a heated election marks the latest chapter in his complicated relationship with NBC, and may provide fodder for those who say the network is maintaining a double standard when it comes to Trump.

For years he maintained a double life.