Sentence examples for standards of efficiency from inspiring English sources

Many foreign companies are able to operate to higher standards of efficiency in Eastern Europe than trade unions or bureaucrats would allow at home.

Why do we not apply the same standards of efficiency to collecting tax as we do to the running of supermarkets and making cars?

While the famous exteriors will be unchanged, the insides will be brought up to 21st century standards of efficiency and security and reconfigured to consume 40percentt less energy.

The rule requires that beginning in 2006, new central air-conditioners (and also central heat pumps, which can heat or cool) run on 30percentt less electricity than under current minimum standards of efficiency.

Renoir's European habits — his commitment to filming as much as possible on location, his indulgent attitude toward his actors, who were allowed a large number of takes to find their performances — didn't mesh well with studio standards of efficiency.

None of GM's competitors has had to shoulder costs per worker anything like as heavy: until an agreement in 2007 with the union, each car in Detroit carried about $1,400 in extra pension and health-care costs compared with the foreign-owned competitors in America.GM, Ford and Chrysler tried to improve: by 2006 they had almost caught up with Japanese standards of efficiency and even quality.

The Prussian bureaucracy established a high standard of efficiency and honesty that was at this time unique in Europe.

Any country that has the same currency as Germany is going to have to perform to a similar standard of efficiency.

Unlike a carbon tax, which gives consumers and manufacturers an incentive to look for smart ways to save energy, a mandated standard of efficiency can reduce flexibility and force people into choices they wouldn't ordinarily make — including ones with consequences more serious than dirty clothes.

"We realized existing homes were very difficult to get to any standard of efficiency without a lot of work," Jennifer told me.

CHARLIE ROSE: I believe — this is not exactly on point, but that theGates — Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is — has been successful, will be increasingly successful because of Melinda and Bill, you know, wanting to impose a structure, an architecture, a standard of efficiency and results to do good.