Sentence examples for standard fails from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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

Moreover, the list of standards fails to include equipment that may be especially important in today's missions, like high technology information systems, defenses against chemical and biological weapons and adequate numbers of precision weapons.

The standards fail because they start from the wrong place.