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Your work comes short of the expected standard.
The way tourists dress offends the local standard of propriety.
JST stands for Japan Standard Time.
No woman could measure up to his standard.
His work is not up to standard.
The standard pitch A is used as referential pitch for tuning most of all instruments and is set to 440 Hertz.
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
The statistics show that our standard of living is high.
Many Americans wanted a gold standard.
The use of non-standard English does not help to promote English in international communications; well, we can always fall back on Esperanto.
Performance and responsibility are not in their vocabulary; sloppiness comes as standard.
In grammar and vocabulary, some dialects differ significantly from the standard language.
Some people prize meeting the deadline over producing the highest standard of work.
It's standard procedure.
You have to learn standard English.
Last year's output of coal fell short of the standard.
I want to learn standard English.
By averaging the squared difference between each value and the mean and finding the square root of the result, we can find the standard deviation.
It's the gold standard.
There's a double standard.
This is standard.
There isn't a single country left on the gold standard.
I refuse to pay more than standard rates.
This is standard procedure.
There is no one standard for beauty.
It isn't easy to translate all your comments into Standard German.
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It may be lower than what you anticipated, but it is standard for this position.
A little double standard, don't you think?
Then our glorious and laudable Army. the old, proud, standard bearers of our people. who are equally tradition minded. will champion the Political Leadership and the Party.
Raise the standard of France!
Raise the standard of England!
The courage for you to wish for something better than standard love from someone like Fred.
Standard 7-2961, San Francisco.
And yet, by any standard, if there has been a sin. I am the one who should be branded the sinner.
It's a standard phrase.
Guess my father thinks nobody's good enough for his daughter except maybe the guy that owns Standard Oil.
You'd put the standard at 65?
You've set such a high standard.
It depends what standard you require.
Is eavesdropping standard practice?
It was 8:00 a.m. this morning, Eastern Standard Time.
I must confess, I dont quite know the standard of respectability that you demand in your boarding house, Mrs Haggerty.
And yet, by any standard, if there has been a sin, I am the one who should be branded the sinner.
Guess my father thinks nobody's good enough for his daughter. except maybe the guy that owns Standard Oil.
What's going on? This is not standard equipment.
It isn't standard. If it were, the theatre couldn't survive.
Let me say only that I am proud and happy, and that I regard this great honor not so much as an award for what I have achieved, but as a standard to hold against what I have yet to accomplish.
Small sedan, standard-made, license not available.
The ship, designed for travel outside the Earth's atmosphere, landed in Washington today at 3.47pm Eastern Standard Time.
Still, I do believe I've helped to raise the standard a little.
With gold selling on the continental black market at two and a half times its standard price?
Star, News or Standard!
RADIO ANNOUNCER: It is now 2:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time.
Leader and standard-bearer himself.
It's a standard model with a 200-horsepower Renault engine.
I wanna talk to Mike Williams. Standard 7-2961, San Francisco.
That's my standard charge.
She can speak standard Japanese.
Standard's getting higher all the time.
Greenwich time, mean time, mountain standard time, double British summer time.
But it isn't basic. It isn't standard. If it were, the theatre couldn't survive.
Standard Oil is one of the interests of a man named Rockefeller.
Standard operating procedure.
News and current affairs
But, when it comes to standards - such as those governing safety, health, and the environment - the market-access requirements are brutal and binary: either you meet the established standard or you do not sell.
But, in some cases, the harmonized standard could be more stringent than some countries' original standards.
This work is based on standard scenarios, and carries the typical caveats of predictions far into the future.
Designing such a growth strategy is both harder and easier than implementing standard neoliberal policies.
If adopted, this policy would set a new global standard and perhaps prompt other nations to follow suit.
That would widen the wage distribution, create jobs, and maintain the living standard of the poor.
Malaria was surging, owing to the parasite's growing resistance to the standard medicine at the time.
He says that he did not understand how the growth of non-standard mortgages had lured borrowers and investors into bearing dangerous risks.
But Greenspan would have served the country and the world better if he had been somewhat more paternalist in slowing the growth of non-standard adjustable-rate mortgages.
It is not that raising poor people's standard of living above bare subsistence produces Malthusian catastrophe, or that taxes and withdrawal of welfare benefits make people work, at the margin, for nothing.
I believe it is critical that the US set a very high international standard for nuclear restraint.
By any standard of justice, it is also just plain wrong.
More fundamentally, monetary unions - in a broader sense - have existed not only within single states, but also in groups of sovereign states, the gold standard being the most notable example in history.
First, they required fiscal discipline in the member states, which was true under the gold standard, with its informal norm of balanced budgets.
This narrative - the standard Keynesian line, modified for a debt crisis - is the one to which most government officials, central bankers, and Wall Street economists have subscribed, and needs little elaboration.
The developed world's silence suggests that it takes the mistreatment of black and brown women by black and brown men for granted, rather than holding all people to one standard of justice.
This depreciation would perhaps be justifiable had Nigeria managed to use easy money to narrow the gap between ordinary Nigerians' standard of living and that of people living in Britain.
Smug self-satisfaction makes us resistant to embracing the changes necessary to maintain our standard and quality of living.
Well, it isn't standard practice in America - or at least it wasn't.
Its Articles of Agreement were renegotiated by the US, which was looking for more flexibility, and France, which wanted something of the solidity and predictability of the old gold standard.
The standard of living was low.
Klaus and his followers spearheaded the creation of well-functioning, standard political parties.
But his rather technical discussion (which focused on monetary economics and the gold standard) forged no new consensus among economists, and the news media reported no clear sense of alarm.
At the very least, it renders non-viable all debt restructurings under the standard debt contracts.
This was a return to a variant of the old gold standard argument.