Sentence examples for were the standard from inspiring English sources

"If that were the standard, there'd never be any medicine".

Their voices, reading every story aloud, were the standard vehicles of judgment at the Inside News.

(If that were the standard of inclusion, there would be way fewer apps overall).

In recent decades, layoffs were the standard procedure for shrinking labor costs.

In fact, packed venues were the standard throughout my stay, as at Debaser Medis the next night.

In her family, the Filipino dishes that Felipa Tobias cooked were the standard by which all others were judged.

In winter, the dried peas (what Northerners call beans) were the standard for hoppin' John.

Songs about Ho Chi Minh, and examples of great communist heroism were the standard.

By 1953, mechanical sweepers were the standard in all boroughs except Staten Island, which still does not have them, except in commercial areas.

Before fighting games took over, these were the standard bearers of polygonal visuals that introduced players to the concept of real-time graphics rendered in three dimensions.

A likely consequence will be the worst period in the history of American health care since leeches, cups and bleeding were the standard of care.