It speaks of standards and not letting them slip.
Many standards are primarily concerned with one or the other, and in this case we may speak of an "interface standard" (or "technical standard") in contrast to a "quality standard".
Why, he intoned we've spent $12 billion "to advance alternative energy sources including solar, wind, biofuels and nuclear power" not to speak of fuel efficiency standards and on.
While I'm for transparency, I don't like the California initiative because it's rife with exemptions and special cases, all of which speak of a double standard and point to the intent being less to protect public health than make life complicated or costlier for some agriculture sectors.
Those who speak of "the gold standard" as if its worth were axiomatic, rather than a collective hallucination, forget that the value of an ounce of gold is vastly more imputed than intrinsic.
Under the influence of the later Wittgenstein, he maintained that it does not make sense to speak of a universal standard of rationality because what is rational is decided by a backdrop of norms governing a given language and form of life.
Mr. McClellan speaks of journalistic standards.
Mr. Pavlov, for his part, speaks of the standards battle as a matter of iron principle.
A dozen years ago, during a meeting of the UEFA referees' committee, the former World Cup referee Pierluigi Pairetto of Italy spoke of differing standards across Europe.
It was Alain Fouquet, a lawyer for the son, Rémy Mandinot-Leroy, and not Mr. Martinot-Leroy himself, who spoke of how standards for disposing of the dead were changing as the world changed.
