Sentence examples for with a double standard from inspiring English sources

The colony operates with a double standard.

"We are still living with a double standard," she said.

"The laws here are applied with a double standard".

Voters have long been accustomed to living with a double standard from both parties in dealing with troublesome foreigners.

"As successful as I've been lucky enough to be, I still know when I deal with publishers I deal with a double standard".

No doubt the American government operates with a double standard when dealing with autocratic regimes, tolerating Saudi abuses of human rights while condemning Cuban abuses, for example.

It's different with men, a double standard so to speak.

"If you are making a decision on a historical debate, it has to be made based on the parameters of that debate". Tekin also charged U.S. representatives with using a double standard, and urged them not to meddle in Turkish-Armenian relations.

Infuriated by a statement of the Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong which charged the Soviets with employing a double standard by decrying colonialism while dominating Eastern Europe, Khrushchev demanded the right to reply immediately, and accused Sumulong of being "a fawning lackey of the American imperialists".

His allegation led to round-ups and harassment of African-American men and to outrage once the truth was discovered, with many claiming a double standard.

And international audiences question America's complaints about authoritarianism in other countries, including Saudi nemesis Iran, because its chumminess with Riyadh suggests a double standard, making it look like those complaints are not rooted in a genuine belief that rights must be universal.