Sentence examples for standards down from inspiring English sources

The phrase "standards down" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where one is referring to lowering or relaxing standards, but it is not commonly recognized. Example: "In an effort to accommodate more applicants, the organization decided to put their standards down for the hiring process."

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Mr. Garner said that market appetites for anything that resembled a mortgage pushed loan standards down: "No income, no asset.

In Suffolk County, 53percentt of eighth-graders met the reading standards, down from 55percentt in 1999.

As the common refrain from the Bank of England onwards is that low real wages are keeping living standards down, and as even the Bank's governor believes the fiscal squeeze has inhibited the pace of recovery, it is surely time for the Labour party to regain the courage of the convictions of Hattersley and others when it comes to economic and social policy.

Even as stock prices went up, the "happy conspiracy among all of the interested parties drove business standards down," he says.

"We learnt a huge amount going through the whole process, from industry standards down to how do you source components and make sure they're not end of life — so we only deal with manufacturers; we don't deal with in between traders," he adds.

If you can somehow tone down that rhetoric and get your economy, healthcare, and education standards down, then they'll all leave for South America of their own free will.

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There were some bad falls too, such as the Ely Standard (down 53%).

But in Westbury, 55.2percentt of eighth graders met the standard, down from 71.5percentt last year.

For the state's fourth graders, 67.7percentt scored at or above the standard, down from 69.4percentt last year.

He brought the blue and white Israeli standard down with him, where it was burned and he was celebrated as a local hero.

The four low-resolution images collected by micro-scanning thermal microscope imaging system are not standard down-sampled images.

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