Sentence examples for present day standards from inspiring English sources

Even some industrial machines, which were considered "powerful" for their period, had primitive programming technologies by present day standards.

Few codes provide advice on the evaluation of loads in such circumstances; but to ignore the shielding would result in a significant overestimate of the wind loads for the design of extensions or modifications to bring existing structures up to present day standards.

Is it unfair to hold Miller to present day standards of decency and compassion?

By present day standards we were so amateurish and bumbling.

Similarly, quality of surgery, assessment of surgical margins, and the use of adjuvant radiotherapy in some trials were suboptimal by present day standards, reducing the benefit of surgery.

The study had several methodological shortcomings and with present day standards a low quality with only 19% positive scores on the checklist items [Additional file 1].

The samples were collected in the period 1989 1993 and the ethical procedures followed the present day standard.

Postal transport was minimal by present-day standards.

The current owners have hardly changed a thing (despite that, at 2,500 square feet, the house is small by present-day standards); indeed, Mr. Barnes's only gripe is that another house now stands across the road.

Defenders say Serra actually worked to mitigate the excesses of the Spanish forces against the Native Americans, and that he should not be judged by present-day standards.

"Whatever one thinks of this from present-day standards (given the conquest of the Punjab), its acquisition was legal, by the laws of the time," he wrote in an email.