Sentence examples for standards encourage from inspiring English sources

Practice-based standards encourage compliance, whereas performance-based standards encourage innovation.

International standards encourage the use of mediation and nonlethal restraint; law enforcement officers are supposed to use lethal force only after all other means have been exhausted.

The standards encourage more use of informational texts and literary nonfiction to build background knowledge and vocabulary that will be useful in the real world.

Weaker patent standards encourage patent proliferation and an enlargement of the thickets for research in areas such as biotechnology, agricultural chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.This is not just a problem for America, but for the world, as America's trade negotiators push to harmonise global intellectual property protections to American levels.

For example, fuel efficiency standards encourage the development of new technologies and vehicles that use less fuel.

Not only does doing so dramatically improve health standards, encourage fewer children and discourage child trafficking, but it also drives up savings and small business activity.

"Big European countries, too, taking advantage of lucrative construction contracts for the World Cup can set a leading example to the rest of Qatari society by establishing higher labour standards, encouraging labour representation and refusing any complicity with human rights abuse," he said.

Lax lending standards encouraged reckless borrowing except in Texas, where strict rules on predatory lending imposed after an earlier bust kept mortgages modest.In contrast to California, builder-friendly cities like Dallas and Houston added huge amounts of new housing, allowing them to accommodate crowds of new residents without causing much upward pressure on prices.

The miracle of rising living standards encouraged rich countries increasingly to live beyond their means, happy in the belief that healthy returns on their real estate and investment portfolios would let them pay off debts, educate their children and pay for their medical care and retirement.

At the same time, liberalization and a move towards international plant IP protection standards encouraged private investment in wheat.

During this year, the Kansas State Board of Education adopted standards encouraging the consideration of alternatives to evolution, including ID, in the public school science curriculum (Slevin 2005; Wilgoren 2006).