Sentence examples for misery standards from inspiring English sources

Gove will probably announce a national drive to raise misery standards in schools.

It has become, I've noticed with not insignificant misery, almost standard practice for junior and middle managers to travel economy or worse in Europe.

While economic misery and differing labor standards have long made sweatshops more prevalent in the third world than in the West, the trend had been toward improved working conditions.

Soda and Sweetzie, our two cats (who had no place else to go for the six weeks), were warming up for a performance that would last 1,500 miles, round trip, and set new standards for misery in travel.

Soaps have traditionally been the gold standard for festive misery – they're the gift that keeps on giving.

This squashes the multiplicity of working-class experience into a few standard tropes: the misery memoir, the escape, the clever boy or girl "done good".

President Richard Nixon put this fake gold standard out of its misery in 1971.

Indian-brand coffee shops are sprouting in bunches.It is a reminder that Kashmir, for all its political misery, is not a poor place by Indian standards.

I had spent the previous 12 months travelling in poor Asian cities, but even by those standards this was a scene of misery.

And perhaps the addition of his brother Herb to his coaching staff last summer has helped Larry Brown cope with the nightly pressures that have in the past consumed him to the point of making mountains out of standard N.B.A miseries.

The cell phone market could easily put business cards out of their misery, but instead of conforming to a single standard for contact exchange, handset manufacturers offer proprietary solutions or none at all.