Sentence examples for serving as a standard from inspiring English sources

This isn't McDonald's first redesign effort, (see here and here) but the Tampa model is serving as a standard for what 800 other franchises will look like by the end of the year.

Swiatek and Breen noted, "We may take Lafayette's pose on the statue, as depicted on the coin, to represent him in triumphal procession rather than charging against the enemy note his sheathed sword, like a Highland pipe major's baton, serving as a standard rather than brandished unsheathed as a weapon".

Serial dilutions of the plasmid containing a portion of rickettsial 17-kDa antigen gene were assessed in parallel, serving as a standard for concentration analysis.

In total, we acquired 6 time series with image fragments and 2 additional time series with blocks of faces and objects serving as a standard face-localizer.

After that, this strain has been serving as a standard of cyanobacteria in various areas of research, such as photosynthesis, stress response and metabolism.

Similarly, IgA anti-CAP reactivity was measured with a dilution of a high-level responding serum serving as a standard curve, starting at 100 AU/ml.

I hope that this case will serve as a standard for other utility commissions as they work through the complex issues of the cost of carbon pollution.

And, because the novel's bulk includes lengthy reflections on politics, philosophy and theology, it also serves as a standard of intellectual ambition.

It can serve as a standard against which existing institutions are to be judged and as an objective toward which society should move.

Universally respected by his fellow riders and beloved by fans, Ramon has built a towering and well-deserved reputation that serves as a standard for all future jockeys".

It has functioned rather to implant the germs of new thought in others than to serve as a standard old system for others to repeat.