Sentence examples for standards ourselves from inspiring English sources

"We're telling the rest of the world to have high minimum standards to protect software, pharmaceuticals," he said, "and we're violating minimum standards ourselves".

Most Kitemark schemes are assessed against standards written by industry stakeholders, facilitated and published by BSI (to address a common misconception: we don't actually write the standards ourselves).

We cannot expect other nations to heed our views of human rights if we violate human rights standards ourselves.

but if it comes from within the community, we are setting that standard ourselves.

We expect high standards for ourselves and we set high standards for ourselves as a team and as an organization.

We demand perfection of ourselves as consumers but have far lower standards for ourselves as citizens.

We make things worse by our constant value judgments ("I should be asleep"), our ceaseless comparison of ourselves to others ("my wife and kids are asleep, why aren't I?"), and our unrelenting standards for ourselves ("If I don't get eight hours' sleep, I'll be a wreck tomorrow").

We can set higher standards for ourselves".

"We are defining our standards for ourselves," she said.

"We set standards of ourselves, and we dipped below those standards last week," he said.

With these improvements, we've been able to set, and meet, new standards for ourselves.