Sentence examples for standard obsession from inspiring English sources

Hard money and a gold standard obsession, not excessive money printing, was the proximate disaster.

Both the code and the Brighton row confirm a depressing aspect of the debate over school choice and standards: an obsession with sharing out places at the best schools rather than creating more of them.Prospective winners in Brighton are as elated as the losers are despondent.

Does Geordie Greig's new-look London Evening Standard have an obsession with Gilbert and George?

Set high standards, but reduce the obsession with test scores.

Gove may have deserved praise for caring about standards, but his ideological obsession with selective free schools and dodgy academies was a disaster.

But I don't buy that, it just seems to be another element of the same ridiculous obsession with standards of attractiveness that people (especially women) are expected to live up to but that no mere human could possibly achieve.

Child-centered educational reform, that celebrated diversity and used technology, electronics and film media to teach, ended with the wave of a No. 2 pencil, and a growing obsession with standards and testing.

The standard bearers for America's obsession with driving are now leading the charge against it.

Improving Britain's productivity - the ultimate driver of living standards - has been the obsession of numerous governments including the current one, but a recent study from the London School of Economics Centree for Economic Performance showed that output per hour worked in Britain is about 13% lower than in Germany, 18% lower than in the US and 20% lower than in France.

The budding British journalist and reality television star penned a column on dieting that makes a series of inflammatory claims about standards of beauty and weight obsession.

Pointedly, one of the biggest gripes with modern women's media is its similar obsession with beauty standards abiding white women.