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For example, the Obama administration has raised the corporate average fuel economy standards imposed on automakers.

Yet some of the broader outlines of the standards (and double standards) imposed on women remain exhaustingly familiar.

Rather than questioning the Vickers reforms, the chancellor urged the committee instead to examine how bankers could adopt something akin to the ethical standards imposed on other professions.

"A judge's election is tarnished and the integrity of the judiciary is adversely affected by misconduct that circumvents the ethical standards imposed on judicial candidates," the commission stated Wednesday in announcing the censure.

He said Russia had chosen the path of democracy, but defined that as "the power of the Russian people with their traditions" and "absolutely not the realization of standards imposed on us from outside".

The energy efficiency standards imposed on makers of automobiles, appliances, toilets and light bulbs may save consumers' money, but deprive them of choice: if you want a faster but less efficient dishwasher, you can't buy one anymore.

Reprints Related items Global warming: Getting the message, at lastNov 15th 2007 Cap-and-trade in the north-east: Embracing ReggieNov 15th 2007 Climate change: The greening of AmericaJan 25th 2007Proponents of the idea argue, first, that American producers would otherwise be disadvantaged by the higher costs that their country's stricter standards impose on them.

International legal standards impose on governments a responsibility to respect, protect and fulfill certain enumerated rights of individuals.

Any strike would be in defense of the double standard imposed on nuclear have-nots by the United States, which refuses to honor its obligation under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to work toward nuclear disarmament.

The high standard imposed on philosophical arguments by rationalism demands something like a proof of the realist position.

This is more than a double standard imposed on homosexual relationships, but the worst combination of personal hypocrisy with political expediency that has become the means by which millions of Americans are disenfranchised from their full access to civil rights.