Sentence examples for standards were imposed from inspiring English sources

The following decade, standards were imposed for refrigerators nationwide.

Typically the most troublesome spaces were built in the 1960's and early 70's, before design standards were imposed.

As cuts in services and living standards were imposed in a fruitless attempt to escape the crisis, support for establishment parties plummeted or fractured to left and right.

Walker injuries declined sharply after new safety standards were imposed in 1997 and manufacturers began selling stationary activity centers without wheels.

Standards were imposed on these nations that did not in any way correspond to their way of life, traditions, or these peoples' cultures.

Quality control and standards were imposed on clockmakers by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, a guild which licensed clockmakers for doing business.

You suggest that tough standards be imposed on the cellphone industry to make the service more reliable.

"Treasury should consider requiring that some baseline fraud prevention standards be imposed," Mr. Barofsky said in his first report to Congress.

But how can rigorous new environmental standards be imposed on an industry well advanced in the 21st century's first big energy rush?

Either way, exposing any individual woman's photos without her permission as evidence of the impossibly high beauty standards being imposed on her feels unfair.

"It has to be an exercise in wishful thinking to suggest companies can reform without international standards being imposed upon them," said John Christensen, director of Tax Justice Network (TJN).