The phrase 'sole standard' is correct and usable in written English.
It is mainly used to indicate that there is only one standard or option available. For example: Her sole standard of success is becoming the CEO of a major company.
For decades, the sole standard for admission has been the infamous test, prompting a host of preparatory courses.
The Republicans won the election, and in 1900 a Republican majority in Congress enacted the Gold Standard Act, which made gold the sole standard for all currency.
And as a result the players, having long understood their responsibility as the sole standard bearers of national pride, are aware that the burden of expectation is greater on them today than ever.
Tom Elliott is the sole standard bearer for unionism in the 2015 general election on Thursday after a deal between his Ulster Unionist party and the larger Democratic Unionists.
Now Scunthorpe are sole standard bearers of England's second largest county and Peter Swann, chairman since last summer, is determined they will not follow Lincoln and Grimsby out after two relegations in three seasons.
"I come before you as an Author only — it is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me — the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.'" Much as I might agree, my own case strikes me as having more in common with that of Toby Forward, the Anglican vicar who, in the nineteen-eighties, wrote a series of stories posing as a teenage girl by the name of Rahila Khan.
In fact, we don't need some putative scientific standard as the sole criterion for hermeneutics, biblical or otherwise.
But allowing clinical practice guidelines to become the sole legal standard for deciding negligence is a terrible idea.
With the adoption of the Federal Rules of Evidence in 1975, courts, scholars and practitioners alike began to question whether Fryewould survive as the sole admissibility standard for expert testimony.
With the adoption of the Federal Rules of Evidence in 1975, courts, scholars and practitioners alike began to question whether Frye would survive as the sole admissibility standard for expert testimony.
In this section, we consider arguments for welfarism as the sole evaluative standard against which to appraise legal rules and institutions.
