Sentence examples for ordinary standards from inspiring English sources

By ordinary standards, Clinton the politician was grossly undisciplined.

Such people can hardly be judged by ordinary standards.

But then Carlos had never lived by ordinary standards.

But, by ordinary standards, he was not careful.

By ordinary standards, the process was hardly an adversarial one.

And yet a successful piece of academic prose is rarely judged so by "ordinary" standards.

It rises above the ordinary standard of sufferings and crimes.

"Certainly by any ordinary standard this is pretty minor stuff.

By any ordinary standard, Heidi should be about as innocent as Paris Hilton.

And, on weekends, people with ordinary standard-class tickets may upgrade to first for a modest $8.

When same wheel-size, newfangled safeties came along, from 1885, high-wheel bicycles became known as ordinaries, as they were the ordinary, standard bicycles of the time.