Sentence examples for plausible standards from inspiring English sources

Diamond (1965) explains that no utility-discounting leads to a contradiction when some assumptions are imposed in addition to plausible standards of utility-stream comparison.

Having banished the "ghosts of the past" he must also persuade the voters and especially the record number of potential abstainers that on the issues that now matter most he is a more plausible standard-bearer of change than she is.

To the extent that liberal reformists have a plausible standard-bearer at all for 2000, they might have to look to Grigory Yavlinsky, a social democrat who finished fourth in the first round of the 1996 election with 7% of the vote.

By any rational, plausible standard, this is a gangbusters opening weekend for arguably the biggest cinematic franchise in film history.

Next, some theorists of progress formulate plausible normative standards for individual domains of human life.

Instead, they were directed to break down hypothetical classroom activities (e.g., a data collection/analysis activity involving tires) in order to identify plausible content standards that could be unwrapped to determine desired student outcomes (Wiggins and McTighe, 2011).

However, actualist comparativism does not appear to be more plausible than standard comparativism.

The claim then would be that according to any plausible such standard, the gap between someone who is very badly off and someone who is much better off will be far more morally significant and bad than an identical gap between someone who is extremely well off in non-comparative terms and someone who is much better off than that.

Further, the agreement between the United States and Iran is a treaty by any plausible constitutional standard or tradition.

Analyzing plausible values with standard techniques yields the same results as if we actually observed true person proficiencies (Rubin [1987]).

Schaffer suggests that these pairs provide "clear examples of grounding": it is "plausible", "natural" and "standard" to regard the second term of each pair as grounded in the first.