Sentence examples for setting global standards from inspiring English sources

Both allies and competitors are telling us we have more heft and leverage in negotiating these rules and in setting global standards if we are part of a group of 28 member states than we do on our own.

We have found that by setting global standards – through the Equator Principles, modelled after the IFC's environmental and social performance standards or sectoral standards such as through the International Labour Organisation/IFC better work programme – we can successfully contribute to high quality and inclusive job growth that is also sustainable.

We want China to have its rightful seat at the table for setting global standards.

The Atomico team is setting global standards and together with its portfolio companies has brought Europe back on the radar of international Venture Investors and corporates.

The EU will now have the most extensive data protection laws in the world and will set global standards".

Their codes of conduct must set global standards that treat workers as world citizens and guarantee them certain levels of dignity and respect".

The accusations come as negotiators for many nations prepare to gather in Geneva this week to set global standards for tobacco sales and marketing.

The UN sets global standards for human rights, but has no single agency with the resources and clout to work globally to improve the lives of women.

Microsoft's core strengths and most of its profits were to be found on its business side, where it set global standards with its products.

Habitat III's headline achievement is the New Urban Agenda; in the UN's words, "an action-oriented document which will set global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development".

The Nuremberg Code, which sets global standards for research on humans, grew out of the world's moral revulsion against Nazi experiments on concentration camp prisoners, including many children.