Sentence examples for standard to think from inspiring English sources

It is plausible and perhaps even standard to think of slurs as semantically expressing a certain descriptive property (being a member of such and such a group, say) while also conventionally expressing a negative attitude towards those with the property.

For linguists it is now standard to think of indefinite descriptions following the copula as always being predicational, and it is a widespread belief that definite descriptions following the copula are often predicational.

It's indicative of the infamous double standard to think that all women -- increasingly well-educated, well-paid, well-balanced, well-connected -- can be paired with a man who is good marriage and fatherhood material.

The standard way to think about bear markets is to follow the indices.

What precisely this means, we are not told, but one standard way to think about human nature theologically is in terms of a human "soul".

These sections encourage readers to better appreciate their own living standards and to think more skeptically about who is responsible for their success.

TL It used to be that only Police Academy movies and straight-to-video comedies about extraordinary dogs were eked out to seventh, eighth, ninth instalments... Now it is standard for studios to think half a dozen sequels ahead.

By what standard are we to think our efforts "to be," our manner of being a self?

No one on any side of these issues advocates a lowering of standards or seems to think it should be necessary, if educational opportunities are spread widely enough.

Especially when it comes to meeting coverage standards one tends to think oneself safe.

Clinton told Sawyer that she was not "as effective calling [sexism] out during that campaign," but that "there is a double standard, we live with a double standard, and people ought to think about their own daughters, their own sisters, their own mothers, when they make comments about women in public life".