Sentence examples for standard failed from inspiring English sources

The gold standard failed to outlast the Depression.

Similarly, Edison's attempt to make direct current the industry standard failed because alternating current was more reliable and allowed electricity to travel longer distances.

First the council called in an expensive consultancy, who produced a glossy report that offered the standard failed prescriptions of luring in more investment.

The BESR standard failed to protect Minnesota pitcher Ben Birk, who was hit in the face by a line drive from Miami's Kevin Howard during a March 2001 tournament at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.

"Regime change" for evil dictators as a policy standard failed when we neglected to include Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe in the effort.

Instead, in a one-way spirit of "bipartisanship" (which by definition requires two to tango), the White House refused to "dignify the attacks --the stattacks --the Democrattacks --the to vistandard appealing or appalling attacks failedhe other siDemocraticng the responseans to gain traction with the public.

If the goal, though, is to protect people from losing all of their money in an illiquid investment, the current standard fails on that count, too.

Organisations that fail this standard, fail the entire accreditation survey.

However, a 50 μg/L drinking water standard fails to protect against death from not only skin cancer but also bladder, liver, and lung cancers.

If these dilutions give a result significantly different from the nondiluted sample, then the method suffers from a problem of matrix and/or recovery effects, and the internal standard fails to compensate effectively for these.

An utterly chaotic season, even by Köln's deranged standards, failed to produce a happy end, however.