Sentence examples for prevailing standard from inspiring English sources
And if your guanxi with the host is close, you must give more, regardless of income.The careful record-keeping system also puts pressure on people to match previous gifts, a dynamic that ensures the prevailing standard will only keep rising.
For all the appearance of success, she has had darker days, as chronicled in her book, in which she describes starving herself to be a "straight size" model, the industry term for girls who meet the prevailing standard of beauty, which is to say extremely thin.
In the 1980s, CERN built a lower energy electron-positron collider called LEP, which cost 1.3 billion Swiss francs and cemented much of physicists' prevailing standard model by studying particles called the W and Z bosons in detail.
Detailed feedback from the surgical team verified that this new approach is more reliable and therefore considerably less time-consuming than audible Doppler ultrasound, the prevailing standard method of navigation.
The startup also needs to update its product for Apple's current generation of mobile devices; Lightning is the prevailing standard on Apple iOS hardware now, and its use will likely occlude that of 30-pin entirely come September when Apple introduces new iPhone hardware.
This trial is investigating the CV profile of empagliflozin versus placebo superimposed upon prevailing standard of care.
The harmonic language is often quite dissonant, at least by the prevailing standards of American popular music.
Many writers are disheartened; works of literary merit are often not published because they may not be readily marketable by prevailing standards.
Their homes are not worth what is owed, or their income is not adequate to support such a loan under the tighter prevailing standards.
In past American wars, when such tribunals had been used to carry out battlefield justice against spies, saboteurs and others accused of violating the laws of war, they had generally hewed to prevailing standards of military justice.
The question that needs to be asked, said James B. Gilbert, a social historian at the University of Maryland, is the extent to which each generation's culture exceeds the prevailing standards of the day.
