Sentence examples for standard holds from inspiring English sources

But a double standard holds.

Hill Start Assist, which is standard, holds the vehicle steady on steep grades.

One standard holds emergency room doctors responsible for reducing the time between deciding that a patient needs hospitalization and sending the patient out of the emergency room.

All the while, The Standard held talks with various potential buyers, including one group that included some of The Standard's venture investors.

Few support a refusal to testify that does not turn narrowly on protecting a confidential source, the one standard held sacred on both sides of the Atlantic.

The foundation, established in 2011 by Evgeny Lebedev, the chairman of the companies which own The Independent and the Evening Standard, held the event at the London auction house Phillips de Pury.

Antonio Tabucchi, a distinguished Italian novelist whose work, with its almost palpable sympathy for the oppressed, became a standard held aloft by opponents of the right-wing government of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, died on March 25 in Lisbon.

Thus the beefed-up Airport Extreme, which is based on the newly approved 802.11g Wi-Fi standard, held much promise for us.

The double standard held by Republicans has gone too far.

The yard in this sense later became the standard holding of the medieval villein, and was known as the virgate.

In Reno v. Bossier Parish (Bossier Parish II) (2000), the Supreme Court extended the retrogression standard, holding that for a voting change to have a "discriminatory purpose" under Section 5, the change must have been implemented for a retrogressive purpose.