Sentence examples for something of a standard from inspiring English sources

The country became something of a standard bearer in a worldwide push towards basic income projects.

Stellar academics are considered something of a standard for most top-tier investment banks.

Several of them, like "Blen, Blen, Blen," which became something of a standard, "Arinanara" and "El Pin Pin," got recorded and became hits.

Johnathan Croft, a G.I.S. specialist with the Vermont Agency of Transportation's Mapping Section, told me that Arseneault had set something of a standard for rediscovering the state's ancient roads.

But in those drawings the fur looked, indeed, rattier, and I suspect that, had the entire feature been hand-drawn in the style of the credits, it wouldn't have proven as profitable in part, simply because CGI has become something of a standard expectation, but, more precisely, because the movie's subject matter is sanitized by CGI.

Indeed, long before he became interested in routine child protection, David Cameron was something of a standard bearer for the anti-thong movement, with his condemnation of BHS kiddy bras and other influences that are often described, following Sue Palmer's book on the subject, as 'toxic' to childhood.

Mrs Schipanski is something of a standard-bearer.

By this token, "The Servants' Quarters" starts as something of a standard-bearer for the misfit, the outcast, the oddball and the plain barking mad.

Mosley, who is now something of a standard-bearer for better privacy rights for public figures, is taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights, where he hopes to build on his success in the UK courts.

Opening speaker Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who has made himself into something of a standard-bearer for the conservative wing of the GOP, laid out a list of items – some more concrete than others – for conservatives to run on in the midterms, including a lifetime ban on lobbying for retired members of Congress, a "strong balanced budget amendment" and, of course, the repeal of Obamacare.

Something of a double standard?