Sentence examples for word standards from inspiring English sources

Since words powerfully shape our emotional responses, what if we substitute the word "standards" for "regulations"?

The word "standards" carries many positive associations as what most people aspire to uphold.

The Senate side is also using the word "standards" instead of "mandates".

With a conservative administration in the White House and a president whose thoughts about education can be boiled down to the word "standards," the advocacy groups founded to save the classics are enjoying a second wind.

The second sub-category, skills progression documents, includes documents that are indicator-based; however, the use of the word "standards" has been rejected, though there is recognition of the importance of specifying child outcomes.

This is a singer who takes an ironically wide interpretation of the word "standard".

Formally speaking, Bluetooth is a short-distance wireless networking standard, but the word "standard" is applied loosely.

As Thomas spoke, a public-relations official stood a few feet to his left, monitoring every word, standard Garden policy.

Her dress was not, in a word, standard-issue mother-of-the-bride, or M.O.B., garment-speak for a category of dress that is fast outgrowing the decorous frocks of old.

The word "standard," as it is commonly used in engineering, is a contraction of standard specification.

The word "standard" also refers to standard procedures, such as examinations and tests of materials and personnel.