Sentence examples for the universal standards from inspiring English sources

Thus Nietzsche arrived at Kierkegaard's idea that "the crowd is untruth": the so-called autonomous, self-legislating individual is nothing but a herd animal that has trained itself to docility and unfreedom by conforming to the "universal" standards of morality.

Both were convinced that this singularity, what is most my own, "me," could be meaningfully reflected upon while yet, precisely because of its singularity, remain invisible to traditional philosophy, with its emphasis either on what follows unerring objective laws of nature or else conforms to the universal standards of moral reason.

The first I.B.M. employee profiled in these pages (in 1957), Bemer was responsible for more computing breakthroughs than just about anybody, including ASCII text--the universal standard for computer characters--and the escape sequence, a complicated maneuver that controls laser printing.

Today, the rich, jammy California-style cabernet has become the universal standard.

Proudest of: My golden keys, the universal standard of service excellence.

Mr. Bernstein explains why, after centuries of coexistence, gold shoved aside silver as the universal standard.

"And yet," he said, "there is always going on the process of reconciliation between them, the individual taste conforming to the universal standard".

The universal standard through horse racing time has been to bar administration of any and all medications before a horse competes.

"Have you ever seen the body?" Tom Ford, the designer, said by telephone from London, referring to a broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped physique that might represent the universal standard for male models.

Their protocol — using one doctor for the procedure instead of two, for example — became the universal standard, and articles they published about their thousands of successes confirmed the safety and efficacy of colonoscopies.

It is here that the kilogram -- the universal standard against which all other kilograms are measured -- resides in controlled conditions set out in 1889, in an underground vault that can be opened only with three different keys possessed by three different people.