Sentence examples for standards failed from inspiring English sources

An utterly chaotic season, even by Köln's deranged standards, failed to produce a happy end, however.

Germany's taxes remain high, and overall West German living standards failed to rise at the same rate as those of most other wealthy countries.

In 1990, three months before the effort to raise fuel-efficiency standards failed on Capitol Hill, President Bush issued an executive order making large swaths of the continental shelf off-limits to new exploration.

But other complaints — students say the school, a nonprofit institution, has lowered admission and graduation standards, failed to enforce dress codes and expanded too rapidly — go to the heart of whether it is providing the superior education for which its students pay some $30,000 a year.

There is a recognized protocol for writing standards, and the Common Core standards failed to comply with that protocol.

She found that nearly 87percentt of state history standards failed to cover Native American history in a post-1900 context, and that 27 states did not specifically name any individual Native Americans in their standards at all.

The standards fail because they start from the wrong place.

It would be rather odd were a major public inquiry into breaches of ethical standards fail to apply the same rigour to itself.

Regardless of whether crimes are ultimately proven, Enron's conduct already provides a primer on how current financial disclosure rules and accounting standards fail to protect investors adequately.

Moreover, the list of standards fails to include equipment that may be especially important in today's missions, like high technology information systems, defenses against chemical and biological weapons and adequate numbers of precision weapons.

However, these standards fail to adequately specify the chamber surface decay effect with regard to ozone and particulates, which will add uncertainty to the test results.