Sentence examples for the standards of behavior from inspiring English sources

But partly due to the Internet, the standards of behavior in this new country are terrible.

The solution is for both parties to adhere to the standards of behavior that customarily govern such transactions.

"It's important for them to return to the standards of behavior that the international community has called for.

The Mardi Gras norms are built on a fiction — that the current budgetary path is sustainable — and once you enter that fiction, then all sorts of other fictions become necessary and trickery piles upon trickery until all the standards of behavior are turned upside down.

"We have suspended that effort because we believe that North Korea has not acted appropriately in recent days and weeks and that it's important for them to return to the standards of behavior that the international community has called for," the Pentagon press secretary, George Little, said Wednesday.

Not only have some religious leaders ignored compelling evidence, but they, like the leaders of secular institutions, have often failed to live up to the standards of behavior they espouse.

I insist that this organization lives up to the standard of behavior we expect of others.

As in most classrooms, the standard of behavior varied from angelic to satanic.

Mr. Schneiderman is "a mile ahead of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has to be dragged slowly and grudgingly toward raising the standard of behavior," said John Coffee, a professor and expert on securities law at Columbia Law School.

"If we achieve that, we will have set a marker for the standard of behavior with respect to Iran and with respect to North Korea," Mr. Kerry said after meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.

In "Enduring Tale of Endurance" (Making Books column, March 15), the author Caroline Alexander suggests that people today are incapable of the standard of behavior that enabled Ernest Shackleton's men to survive their failed Antarctic expedition from 1914 to 1916 -- that it seems to be a fact of our times and culture.