Sentence examples for standard for reckoning from inspiring English sources

The Greenwich (or prime) meridian (0°) mark, which since 1884 has been almost universally recognized as the world standard for reckoning longitude, is still on display, as is a collection of early astronomical instruments.

Seven days after the attacks of 11 September, the elder Kagan published a column in the Yale Daily News – republished immediately by the neoconservative Weekly Standard – assailing Kennedy for reckoning not with the threat of terrorism posed by the attacks but with "our need to understand and sympathise with… the terrorists".

The present paper furnishes a means for reckoning the actual roll gyradius of a given ship operating within a seaway.

FRANKFURT — A review of European banks could become a day of reckoning for some troubled German institutions, amid signs that the authorities may impose a tough standard for the funds that can be used to meet reserve requirements.

By standard reckoning, it made little genetic sense for a mother to destroy her young, and maternal nurturing was assumed to be a hard-wired affair.

Even the Evening Standard reckon he's a bit much.

Google's Android One initiative is more about driving more Android competition into emerging markets to raise overall handset standards, reckons Gupta, rather than itself being a vehicle for generating huge sales volumes.

Either way, it's time for a reckoning.

Mr. Koutoulas and other customers are eager for a reckoning.

Perhaps now it is time for a reckoning.

The 25th year of the festival called for some reckoning.