Sentence examples for standard why from inspiring English sources

But, if like-mindedness or mastery is our moral standard, why should artificial life with advanced brains and human guardianships be exempt?

Her version of the Barbra Streisand standard "Why Did I Choose You?" turned on the words "lovingly and willingly" delivered an almost oratorical emphasis.

It also brings up questions of a double standard (why not boycott China for its egregious violations of human rights?) and the seemingly contradictory position of approving a boycott of one's own nation.

Following the reasoning that if Rodgers and Hammerstein's You'll Never Walk Alone, the tear-jerking showstopper from Carousel, is a football standard, why not other R and H classics, how about some numbers from The Sound of Music?

I wanted to widen my audience for this piece, which was my column in yesterday's London Evening Standard: Why is News UK still employing the disgraced Sun on Sunday reporter Mazher Mahmood?

Mohammad Hashemi, a reformist who is the younger brother of former President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and was a student at Berkeley in the nineteen-seventies, complained to me about a "double standard": "Why is India allowed nuclear energy, but not Iran?" I suggested that it might have something to do with Ahmadinejad's inflammatory rhetoric.

If the equal protection clause applies to different counting standards why does it not apply to those Gore voters whose ballots have not now been counted?

A society cannot really be more prosperous if it pays more and more of its citizens not to work.If early retirement really improves living standards, why stop at 60? Why not 55?

We're warning against double standards: why should you have to wait for a leader to fall to put a stop to corruption?" said Maud Perdriel-Vaissiere, head of Sherpa, one NGO leading the case.

Over and again they express their anger at what they see as double standards: Why so much fuss over 17 dead when thousands have died in Gaza and Syria?

I'm going to say yes, it did, because if I go by the Washington Post's own standards, why not?