Sentence examples for usage standards from inspiring English sources

For many, usage standards boil down to the unquestioned truths of "traditional grammar," even if some of the traditions turn out to be only a few decades old.

In recent decades, the defense of usage standards has become a flagship issue for the cultural right: the people who are most vociferous about grammatical correctness tend to be those most dismissive of the political variety.

Even today, it would be silly to claim that conservatives actually care more deeply about usage standards than liberals do, much less that they write more clearly or correctly.

Evidence of this ethnic and linguistic pride can be seen in the preference of many Indigenous Australians for the use of such self-designations as Koori (also spelled Koorie, meaning "person") rather than the terms "Aborigine" and "Aboriginal," which were imposed upon them (see Researcher's Note: Britannica usage standards: Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia).

I discuss one set of usage standards below.

Surgical patients who are managed in accordance with bloodless or limited blood usage standards are hemodiluted with a colloid solution before surgery in order to salvage autologous blood for later use.

In the United States a new diesel-fuel usage standard from the Environmental Protection Agency came into force in October for highway vehicles (trucks, buses, and automobiles).

Decentralized authentication and two-factor authentication will transform the coming usage standard on billions of consumer-facing connected devices for biometrics, PINs and passwords.

The iVDR (Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage) standard for portable HDD carts was established in 2002 by eight top Japanese electronics companies, but it never caught on.

Don't insist on pronouncing every word with Latin origins according to the rules above; when a word has been adopted into everyday usage, standard English pronunciations are appropriate.

Heavy electricity use, meanwhile, could be limited by imposing power-usage standards on electronics manufacturers, as exist for refrigerators and washing machines.