Sentence examples for standard turned from inspiring English sources

The London Evening Standard turned a big loss into a modest profit last year.

Messrs Flandreau, Le Cacheux and Zumer conclude that thegold standard turned out to be hostage to the exogenous evolution of prices.

And there was something magical about the moment when Simon Cowell's triumphal appropriation of this countercultural standard turned to ashes in his ears as he heard Alexandra Burke sing the line "You don't even care for music, do you" and realised that Cohen had written it especially for him.

INSIDE TRACK: The gold standard turns platinum.

"They might turn to other models"–such as China–"after watching what they have been told is the gold standard turn out to be not so strong," Schulz said.

Mr. Obama has focused on improving teacher evaluations, promoting common academic standards, turning around failing schools and increasing charter schools.

Recruiters have thought of everything: higher enlistment bonuses, lower standards, turning a blind eye to the tattooed and the overweight.

The Colombian artist Miler Lagos – at 40, antique by Saatchi standards – turns the clock back by compressing waste paper into cylinders and carving these into branches.

The Interior Department devolved into a cesspool of corruption, even by its historically low standards, turning the Bush-Cheney antigovernment animus into a self-fulfilling prophecy and bequeathing Obama a Minerals Management Service as broken as the Bush-Cheney FEMA exposed by Katrina.

The assessment of the compliance of the proposed measurement technique with the current power quality standards turns out to be mandatory, thus verifying the absence of artifacts introduced by the adopted compressed sampling approach.

Can new fuel economy standards turn the tide?