I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a level/standard/degree of competence
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The trainees are expected to acquire a basic level of competence.
a moral standard/principle
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Has there been a decline in moral standards in our society?
a standard feature (= a normal or usual feature )
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Airbags are now a standard feature on most cars.
a standard technique
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A sample of blood was obtained from each patient using the standard technique.
academic standards (= levels that are considered to be acceptable )
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The school has high academic standards.
acceptable standard
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Students who achieve an acceptable standard will progress to degree studies.
compromise your standards
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Universities should not have to compromise their academic standards.
double standard
ethical standards
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The president must have the highest ethical standards .
exacting standards/demands/requirements etc
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He could never live up to his father’s exacting standards.
gold standard
high standard (= very good levels of work, achievement, behaviour etc )
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The general standard of the entries was very high.
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Our guests expect us to maintain high standards .
high/low standard of living
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a nation with a high standard of living
living standard
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Living standards have improved over the last century.
meet...standards
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beaches which meet European standards of cleanliness
normal/standard procedure
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It’s standard procedure to take photographs of the scene of the crime.
professional standards
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The Law Society’s function is to maintain the highest professional standards.
quality standards
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Greater investment is needed to meet the European Union’s strict quality standards.
rules/standards of conduct
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In war, there are established rules of conduct.
safety standards (= official rules designed to make something safe )
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He claims safety standards on ferries are still not high enough.
set standards/guidelines (= decide on standards, rules etc )
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The government has set new food quality standards for all school canteens.
set the standard (= be very good, and so show how good other people or things should be )
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They wanted to set the standard for software.
standard deviation
standard equipment (= the equipment that is in a car, which does not cost extra to have )
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Standard equipment on this model includes airbags, climate control and cruise control.
Standard Grade
standard lamp
standard of living
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a nation with a high standard of living
standard time
standards of behaviour
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declining standards of behaviour among young people
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It’s a parent’s job to instruct children in acceptable standards of behaviour.
standards of efficiency
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Their work led to higher standards of efficiency across the industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
academic
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But educators there have shown that high academic standards and the concepts under-girding school-to-work are not mutually exclusive.
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Under intense political pressure the strict academic standards which first prevailed were relaxed, and entry was broadened.
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But they illustrate the second key task facing public schools: how to increase the academic content and standards for all students.
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In addition, the academic standards of those receiving special education in secondary and special schools are not always impressive.
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All the academic standards are all locally developed.
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Competition for the few places available is keen and a high academic standard is required.
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Corporate leaders also have championed the need for higher academic standards , most recently at the National Education Summit in 1996.
acceptable
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This study has shown that an acceptable standard of diabetic care can be provided in normal surgery time.
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Students who achieve an acceptable standard may have the opportunity to progress to degree studies.
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Inadequate professional services are services which fall below an acceptable standard , but are short of negligent work.
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Sections which fall below an acceptable standard in terms of quantity, quality of content, or physical condition should receive priority.
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And above all pupils were the first to acknowledge the moment when they moved from acceptable to unacceptable standards .
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But it must be remembered that the process of evolving acceptable accounting standards has taken many years.
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The western section is already at an acceptable standard but the east section is in poor condition, virtually unusable when wet.
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They will also be expected to submit answer books that are of acceptable standard .
accounting
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This move has greatly strengthened the regulatory force of accounting standards .
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Harmonising international accounting standards is more important than one might think.
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In local authorities, the law plays an equally important, probably more important, part in accounting standards .
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Companies are required to state that their accounts are prepared in accordance with approved accounting standards .
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It is possible that proposals for revisions to accounting standards on these subjects will be made in the future.
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This is the first time that accounting standards have had even this amount of statutory backing.
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We will monitor the further developments and pronouncements of the several bodies presently addressing the subjects of corporate governance and accounting standards .
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The paper also proposed that an accounting standard restrict the uses of the share premium account.
double
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Stone also emphasizes the extent to which women accepted the double moral standard .
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That double standard was the underbelly of every easy laugh stand-up comedians got when they did hooker jokes.
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Industrialised countries are accused, rightly, of double standards .
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Patricia Schroeder of Colorado remains a cautionary symbol of the unfair double standard in the let-your-emotions-all-hang-out department.
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Medical men, as well as the military and defenders of the double standard , were strong proponents of the Acts.
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No wonder this Government is so despised - Major's double standards smack of deviousness.
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Translated to criminality, the double standard prescribed different attitudes toward male and female criminals.
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The double standard of morality relied upon this separation between the public and the private.
educational
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We have begun the job of raising educational standards and breaking down the barriers between the vocational and the academic routes.
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Clinton called for uniform educational standards without regard to income level.
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In the context of the debate about the curriculum, economic decline and supposedly falling educational standards were important elements.
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They insist that virtually all of their students reach a high educational standard .
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For more senior jobs individuals will have already demonstrated an appropriate level of intelligence by their educational standards and successful work experience.
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The rate is now 86 percent. Educational standards promise to be a flash point in the presidential campaign this year.
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Enhanced educational and training standards will have demand implications for services in such areas as tourism, leisure and recreation.
environmental
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The early stages are the most critical in achieving high environmental standards and safe operation.
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The volunteer has to meet all relevant environmental standards , of course.
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Higher environmental standards have to some extent highlighted the problem of offensive odours.
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In addition, environmental standards have improved - sometimes dramatically - and leisure and recreational facilities have been substantially enhanced.
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Countries with initially low environmental standards are not immune to pressures to raise them.
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Under the code, each country would be allowed to meet its own environmental standards .
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The garbage giants' advantage was their ability to meet new environmental standards requiring safer, costlier methods of disposal.
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The financial costs of incineration, even with high environmental standards , are rarely higher than the costs of recycling.
ethical
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There is also an emerging globalisation of ethical and judicial standards , which should render social and individual rights more secure.
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The ethical standards of Wall Street have to be monitored at all levels.
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It requires the highest ethical standards and immense skill.
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They appealed to the selfless moral and ethical standards we like to believe we possess.
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As well as the physical provisions, certain moral and ethical standards had to be met in order to gain eternity.
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Only 19 percent of the respondents gave lawyers high marks for maintaining honest and ethical standards .
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The Finance Houses Association were also anxious to ensure that collection practices conformed to the highest ethical standards .
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He refused to lower his ethical standards for higher ratings.
general
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The general standard of joiner work achieved by this company has improved considerably during the past four years.
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As in Galicia, the lowness of the general standards concealed a hopeless poverty.
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Mr Jackson said the general standards of hygiene throughout the group were excellent.
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Sadly, it is my experience that the general standard of golf etiquette at club level is deteriorating.
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The person principally concerned with the general supervision of standards is, of course, the traffic commissioner.
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On the other hand, the general standard of farming was high.
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Subsistence economies sometimes achieve a low-grade stability by the very poverty of the general standard of living.
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The bridle lengths must also be symmetrical, and by general standards are long.
gold
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He believes in the gold standard , term limits, parent-power in schools and tenant-power in public housing.
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Presto, the gold standard controlled prices and alleviated trade imbalances.
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Each needs an archetype, a gold standard , to allow their specimens to be put in the correct cabinet.
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In sum, a myopic gold standard could make us more vulnerable to, not safer from, market fluctuations.
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The scale of the shock was in any case unprecedented, and most of the world was forced off the gold standard .
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Their candy is the gold standard .
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One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output.
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In short, the gold standard obligated the central bank to exchange currency for gold at a fixed price.
high
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Basil did not preach on such matters; he simply set high standards for teachers to emulate.
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You get the picture: We need higher standards .
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We want to see such wastes dealt with to the highest possible standards in ways that are consistent with industrial economics.
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Problem is, the current system resists higher standards , whether in student performance or teacher competency.
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Increasingly high standards favour the larger wealthy companies that have little interest in tropical diseases.
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They see it in the high standards he and his people consistently achieve.
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The photography and commentary are of high standard .
international
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Such cells would be more in line with international standards , but less conducive to political mobilisation.
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Woodward believes the quintuplet would benefit from playing alongside and against players of National League First Division and international standard .
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Behind it stood the international gold standard .
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The opening encounter took them to the small island of St Vincent, where the pitch was some way from international standard .
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Such a label would assure consumers that the product was made in compliance with international labor standards .
living
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The mechanisation of agriculture and industry is cutting work opportunities, so in many cases living standards are declining.
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As a result, agricultural productivity and peasant living standards remained stagnant.
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Also the material benefits of Prussian citizenship had begun to show in improved living standards and educational opportunities.
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I think that most people are interested in the fact that living standards under this Government have risen dramatically.
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These data will be used to develop profiles of the living standards of similar household types at different income levels.
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As an infection carried on the air and in milk, diphtheria was not much affected by changes in living standards .
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Even though the real wages and living standards of the proletariat may rise, its members will become poorer in relation to the bourgeoisie.
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These figures clearly highlight the difference in world living standards .
low
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The general interior layout is magnificent, but later alterations have made the decoration of a lower standard .
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To lower admission standards would be, in effect, to devalue the currency in which their diploma had been issued.
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Bigger classes and lower education standards are predicted as teachers are sacked to save money.
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Q: Do crews of bargain airlines have lower standards ?
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Do the pages of ticks mean that Fred is a genius or that the work was set at too low a standard ?
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But heads and teachers complain just as much about low standards among employers.
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Leaving behind low living standards and poor conditions in work and study seems more like rejection than adaptation.
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We can not compete on the basis of low educational standards or poor working conditions.
minimum
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The Acts lay down a minimum standard for air quality, and impose pollution emission controls to particular polluters.
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The short-term goals and minimum / standards established for measures in Workplace 2000 will be treated much like control limits.
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Recently, the federal government set its own minimum standards for landfills.
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Collective bargaining is a flexible instrument and can build upon the minimum standards which the law lays down.
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Britain defines it in terms of competition and free trading; most of the other countries conceive of it in terms of minimum operating standards .
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Certain services, such as education, have minimum standards imposed by Parliament.
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We will require local authorities to define minimum standards of accessibility in their areas and draw up transport plans which meet them.
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Taken together, all these requirements constitute a set of minimum professional standards by which individual practitioners can be assessed and judged.
modern
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Outside school - and maritime mishaps - community life was restricted when compared to modern standards .
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Such systems were usually, by modern standards , inequitable, exploitive, rigid, and inefficient.
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Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts.
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Will these peoples continue to live in poverty and disease, or will they be brought up to modern standards of living?
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Many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards .
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While slow by modern standards , it was considered fast in 1985.
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Although of limited accuracy by modern standards , the Scuds were reasonably successful at hitting large targets such as urban settlements.
moral
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Religions frequently fail to live up to their high moral standards .
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He feared that in the absence of moral standards , workers could be abused and exploited.
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The need to survive, which always dictates the moral standards of society, once more underlined the role of the women.
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They appealed to the selfless moral and ethical standards we like to believe we possess.
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The central concern for all these groups is with what they perceive to be declining moral standards .
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He has dumped several party members for violating his personal moral standards .
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By the moral standards of some of the bargainers the claims of some of the others may be immoral.
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With its tendency to glorify brute force it outrages moral standards and inflames the passions.
national
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He won the under-17 boys 1500m in 4-03.5, just outside the national standard .
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The group is working to establish national crime lab standards .
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The car park was immediately closed upon advice from Darlington council, which carried out the tests in line with national safety standards .
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Later we hope to be the first offshore contractor with a competent core crew accredited to national standards .
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These figures are typical and it is therefore evident that the service is not only meeting, but exceeding national standards .
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At one extreme lies the Soviet Union which has over 100 national air quality standards and few emission standards.
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There will, for the first time, be a national standard against which a pupil's performance may be measured.
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They comprise pledges on national standards and a new set of promises specifically geared to the local area.
new
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We are not doing that; with our new standards they represent as good a risk as any house.
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Then they may feel morally devalued and a new standard of behavior can take root: the good of the service.
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The changes which arise as a result of the new standard are described on page 39.
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The proposal would violate new state standards which regulate Delta pumping.
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On Wednesday, the new board voted 7 to 3 for the new standards .
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Fresh new material and standards done with a fresh touch.
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John Pople has set new standards for quantum mechanics, theoretical chemists, and for the general chemistry community.
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Those new standards , the product of years of work, will dramatically change the way students are taught in California.
poor
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Training in interview skills takes a preventative approach to poor standards of interviewing.
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Can you honestly see yourself being poor - really poor by our standards ?
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These educational institutions suffer from very poor standards and give tacit or open support to the oligarchy.
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This was a difficult decision as it meant a drop in their poor standard of living.
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Lack of respect for the law and unemployment were blamed by 76 percent for poorer standards of youthful behaviour.
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The Consumers'Association blames poor hygiene standards .
professional
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First, maintaining professional standards has arguably never been more important.
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Instead of becoming a unified political force dedicated to raising professional standards , black deejays remained unorganized and unfocused.
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Instead they retain the status of written professional standards .
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This reflects the Society's function to monitor and maintain the highest professional standards .
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Such a practice would tend to promote suitable professional standards and reduce the chances of miscarriage of justice.
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Expertise was dissipated, professional standards dropped.
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The high professional standards present in some other occupations, such as science or medicine, are the outcome of a long process.
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Locally it needs to be done to as near a professional standard as possible.
rigorous
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Instead of an anecdotal narrative it must aspire to the rigorous standards of a science.
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It seems possible but highly unlikely that more rigorous standards were used for the categories that we happened not to study.
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Among them are: Rigorous standards in wiring and installation.
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I was wrong, he said, to think that the Black Studies Department had abandoned rigorous standards .
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They are professionals with equipment which meets rigorous safety standards .
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It advocated more rigorous standards for planning future projects.
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A combination of higher taxation and more rigorous academic standards led to a dearth of first-class amateurs.
technical
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They expect other nations to set technical standards and to innovate new markets.
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Determine offences and decide on compliance with technical standards .
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This provides the Institute with a unique influence in the maintenance of technical standards .
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In yet another report, Lord Hunt of Tamworth ignored the vital issue of technical standards for a future cabling system.
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Now there is an open technical standard .
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Subject to this constraint and the firm's other technical standards we must always act in the best interests of our client.
tough
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However modern incinerators give off less dioxins thanks to tougher design standards .
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And, sure, he spent Wednesday in Chicago pumping wind into his rhetorical drive for tougher education standards .
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Each sets out tough new standards and gives new information and rights to the public.
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Besides tougher legal standards , there are several procedural reasons to go slow under the new law, legal experts say.
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Fewer than 30 of Britain's 450 designated bathing beaches passed the tougher standard last summer.
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Apply slightly tougher standards for employers who hire temporary foreign workers for specialty jobs in the high-tech industry and elsewhere.
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Dolphin admits that its going to be tough marketing two standards to the same set of people.
trading
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Voice over Trading standards say legal action could follow if the company wasn't bonded, to safeguard customers.
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David Roberts, chief trading standards officer of Shropshire County Council, is another contender.
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This may seem like a large haul, but trading standards officers insist it's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Cleveland trading standards officers were flooded with complaints about the double glazing firm in February.
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The man, from Leiston, Suffolk, complained to trading standards officers.
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Police and the trading standards were led to the house by a suspicious neighbour.
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Displaying the wrong price is a criminal offence and you can report the shop to your local trading standards office.
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industry
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Unsurprisingly, it found Unix superior in networking, multi-user support, support for industry standards and cost competitiveness.
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The year-to-year trend for the firm must be examined, and comparisons must be made with industry standards .
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Workstation based publishing systems like Interleaf are an industry standard but offer very little more than the Macintosh in terms of actual capabilities.
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C., is considering industry standards .
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We continually look for ways to break brewing barriers and set new industry standards .
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Sorry, no industry standards in the human memory field yet.
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The spread of the Apple Macintosh within publishing to the point where it has become an industry standard .
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The industry standard for shipping produce is a chilly 41 degrees Fahrenheit, he said.
officer
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Trading standards officer say the recent growth in car boot sales has provided a perfect outlet for the computer pirates.
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Trading standards officers say there are no regulations requiring the product to be banned.
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Trading standards officers investigated the couple after complaints from a computer engineer who bought their products at a sale in Lyneham.
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David Roberts, chief trading standards officer of Shropshire County Council, is another contender.
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This may seem like a large haul, but trading standards officers insist it's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Trading standards officers monitor the movement of animals in and out of the country.
quality
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His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it.
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Q Quality standards and hints on carpet care are given.
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Firstly, ambient air quality standards or goals need to be specified.
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Not all aspects of the quality standards belong in this chapter.
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Additionally, a uniform quality standard in safety training will be created throughout the Group.
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One major criticism of the air quality management strategy relates to its use of air quality standards .
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File management Introduction All quality standards place heavy emphasis on file management.
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Crown and Key establishments are being assessed by our inspectors for their quality standards right now.
safety
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Stricter regulation of health and safety standards is called for.
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The usual choice is a helmet that meets the safety standards for bicycles.
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The film was financed by off-shore oil company money and there were no health and safety standards .
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Tests found uranium levels as high as nine times above the safety standard .
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The manual points out that mains can kill and I reckon that it doesn't meet any of the safety standards .
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The findings could lead to improved seismic safety standards at nuclear plants.
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The tightening up of safety standards at nuclear power plants inevitably followed the reactor accidents.
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Border Patrol officials say the vests meet safety standards .
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achieve
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His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it.
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Place more stress on ensuring that students achieve high academic standards .
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If you normally insist upon and achieve high personal standards of performance the idea of not obtaining this can be almost unbearable.
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Providing a sense of accomplishment and recognition to those achieving standards of performance 5.
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Students who achieve an acceptable standard may have the opportunity to progress to degree studies.
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He had achieved , by the standards of Wall Street, technical mastery of his subject.
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It might be considered an expensive reward for achieving a high standard and a costly method of public relations.
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Candidates who achieve the required standard in coursework and written examinations proceed to the submission for the MMus.
apply
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However, it no more obliges me to apply without question your standards to you than mine to myself.
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The students argued that the school discriminated against them by applying more lenient standards to minority applicants.
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That he went grossly wrong in applying the standard does not mean that the standard as such was inapplicable.
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Professionals have to be wary of applying their own standards .
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Gradually, I was made to feel unpopular and I applied these new standards to him.
attain
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June, too, had wanted to be noticed for herself and not just for fading to attain impossibly high standards .
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It articulates the Group's commitment to attaining the highest practical standards of health, safety and environmental protection in the workplace.
develop
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This is a developing service which should also develop software standards in the future.
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A commission was created to develop statewide standards for schools by next year.
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A majority of developing countries feared such standards would be used to block their exports and weaken economic growth.
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It also will help the industry develop standards for the modems.
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B Develop national standards for cardiovascular care.
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But Democrats say the speedup would undermine the work of a commission that is developing standards for a new statewide test.
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The Council is united in its resolve to maintain and develop standards of professional management and competence.
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But a slim majority think the commission should act first to prevent testing companies from developing the standards .
ensure
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Labour's independent Food Standards Agency will ensure high food quality standards .
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The Act requires childcare facilities to be registered to ensure that standards are maintained throughout the country.
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We will back the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council and remain vigilant about ensuring high standards in satellite broadcasts from abroad.
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Proper training of food handlers has a vital role in improving their morale and motivation and ensuring that standards are met.
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The clinical teacher also has a responsibility to ensure that a high standard of nursing care is given to the patient.
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These require employers to assess users' workstations to ensure they meet certain standards .
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The Inspection department's role is to ensure that quality standards are properly maintained, without incurring disproportionate costs.
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And it has created a new job, that of quality assurance manager, to ensure that standards are maintained.
establish
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Congress ought to establish minimum standards for licensing of handgun owners and registration of handguns.
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These standards have been adopted by many states, counties, and cities; others have established their own standards.
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Values: these define what is seen as success by the organisation and establish standards of achievement within the organisation.
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The group is working to establish national crime lab standards .
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Within these objectives the association is empowered: To establish and maintain appropriate standards of competence for managers in the industry.
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The law calls for the government to establish programming standards unless the industry devises its own after one year.
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Control means to establish standards of performance, measure performance against those standards, and take corrective action where required.
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Products graded in accordance with established standards bear the appropriate grade marks.
fall
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In the context of the debate about the curriculum, economic decline and supposedly falling educational standards were important elements.
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Taking Corrective Action Corrective action should be taken if performance falls short of standards and the analysis indicates that action is required.
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The performance of most cities falls substantially below this standard .
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The district tests the water and adds chloramine if levels fall below standards .
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If they fell below his standard he was disappointed, but not censorious.
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Anything less than this is a measure of the extent to which the research falls short of scientific standards .
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In the background are grumbles over falling standards , inadequate facilities and bureaucratic overload.
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Such legislation would outlaw any models which fell below a certain standard .
improve
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The point of our educational reforms is to improve standards .
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Many tribes have used revenues to improve living standards and supplement government-funded programs in social services, healthcare and education.
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Collaboration between the royal society and family health services authorities would be a sensible way forward in improving dispensing standards .
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The findings could lead to improved seismic safety standards at nuclear plants.
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This strategy is explicitly intended to improve living standards sufficiently to divert popular protest.
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Efforts were made to curb unlicensed medical practice and to improve the standards of that profession.
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More established resorts improve a lot on these standards , but perhaps offer less local colour and charm.
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Think of the future-education, improved standards of living for the people.
live
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I still don't live up to my standards .
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The expectation that government action, through the welfare state, could remove inequality and uniformly improve living standards was openly challenged.
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This strategy is explicitly intended to improve living standards sufficiently to divert popular protest.
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What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ?
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Successive generations will probably have living standards lower than those enjoyed by their parents.
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Global demand is projected to double over the next 30 years as population increases and living standards improve.
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Elsewhere in the world, the fee will be adjusted for living standards .
lower
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Developing countries are attracting investment not by lowering their standards , but because they are making the best of their comparative advantage.
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Suddenly interested in the achievement of poor black schoolchildren, pundits, federal officials and policy-makers unanimously condemn Ebonics for lowering standards .
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Lavish praise given for undemanding and second rate efforts lowers standards rather then enhances them.
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He refused to lower his ethical standards for higher ratings.
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With increasing, incompetent social engineering in schools and other public institutions? Lower standards of public health, education and policing?
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It may become dull and mechanized, lowering its performance standards and expectations in the inter-est of predictable functionality.
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Food safety guarantees can lock food processors and distributors into purchasing home-produced food and not imports produced to lower standards .
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Another response has been to dig deeper than usual into waiting lists or to lower admissions standards .
maintain
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But there are now several recognised cooking methods that not only maintain the standards of traditional cooking, but improve on them.
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First, maintaining professional standards has arguably never been more important.
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Being capable of risking showing one's own personal vulnerability while still maintaining professional standards .
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They were to be prepared for their maternal duties and given material assistance to maintain a higher standard of motherhood.
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Tact, vigilance and persistence in maintaining high standards are necessary.
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Hickson take pride in their ability to solve technical problems quickly while maintaining the highest safety standards .
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The results also point up the problem of maintaining the standards reached in the new services.
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The result will be a more coherent and comprehensive system by which to maintain standards in our awards.
meet
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In return for meeting these standards the exchange has insulation from liability for negligence to specific persons.
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To prepare for a lifetime of learning, all students need to meet higher standards and master a solid academic core.
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Issues hence no longer meet the high standards of credit quality required by the eurobond market.
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Young people who meet the standards earn nationally recognized credentials that employers value.
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All three flavourings have been produced to ensure they meet the standards for which Schwartz is famous.
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Specifically, ValuJet did not initially meet Defense Department standards for maintenance, training and internal auditing, he said.
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I understand that the existing safety surface meets the relevant standard so no further safety surfacing should be required.
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Border Patrol officials say the vests meet safety standards .
provide
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She thinks many agencies are providing good standards of care.
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They provided an objective standard by which we could judge ourselves.
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Complaints procedure: Norwich Union's aim is at all times to provide a first class standard of service.
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The scientific method has provided standards for research.
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It has been proved that Lothian has low bureaucratic costs and provides an above average standard of services at low cost.
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These cakes provided a standard by which to judge the substitutions.
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We will continue to be innovative and will provide value and high standards of service and safety for all investors and borrowers.
raise
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What can I do to raise standards generally in schools?
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Most important, Loftus launched a campaign to raise academic standards and expectations.
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We have begun the job of raising educational standards and breaking down the barriers between the vocational and the academic routes.
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Serigraph also has worked to raise standards at the high school to reflect its needs.
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The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team.
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States could raise academic standards for some students and consign others to a new and marginally improved version of job training.
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Officials are drafting the strategy, which aims to raise teaching standards through training and staff support.
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On education, Labor is pledged to raising standards while cutting class sizes for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.
reach
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Cherwell Scientific Publishing Limited was founded in 1990 to distribute and publish carefully selected software which reaches this standard .
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They insist that virtually all of their students reach a high educational standard .
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Both bodies regularly inspect the homes and have powers to make sure that care and other conditions reach specified standards .
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Why work more industriously to reach the new standard ?
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The young concert pianist had spent fewer hours reaching concert standard than he had spent achieving a mediocre amateur level.
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They never reached the standard of work evidenced by the Parthenon or the Erechtheion.
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Diplomas are awarded to candidates who reach a satisfactory standard in written examinations following nine months of coursework.
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Studies that reach a high standard can be submitted for publication.
set
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Creative, determined to set the highest standards .
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It sets zoning standards for previously unregulated swingers clubs and semi-nude modeling businesses.
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Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people.
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You can only set standards and then see if those standards are met.
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But since the majority sets the standards , the differences of the majority are considered normal, those of the minority odd.
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If state laws establish certain certification requirements for teachers, the collective bargaining contract can not set up conflicting standards .
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Basil did not preach on such matters; he simply set high standards for teachers to emulate.
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Instead, regents of individual institutions and systems were given the power to set standards , the reports said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be common/standard/normal practice
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It is normal practice for the definitive sale and purchase agreement to be drafted by the acquirer's solicitors.
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It is normal practice for the heads to specify that each party will be responsible for the costs of its own advisers.
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It is normal practice for the purchaser to order a survey for two reasons.
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It is normal practice for the vendor to disclose various documents to the purchaser as part of the disclosure exercise.
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Motorcycles would be kept out by barriers at each end - this is normal practice for cycle/pedestrian paths.
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The first is the wide variation in specification and finish that are standard practice in the motor industry.
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This is standard practice , but such an event is unlikely.
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Whatever the circumstances, it is standard practice in embryo transfer to introduce several embryos at a time.
style-setter/trend-setter/standard-setter etc
the gold standard
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Air quality standards vary from state to state.
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All his work is of a very high standard .
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I'm afraid you haven't quite reached the standard required for the job.
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I'm afraid your driving isn't yet up to standard .
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If the pilot has not been trained to normal airline standards, he will not be employed by us.
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In reading tests, 15% of school students were found to be below the standard for their age.
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Judges remarked on the high standard of this year's entries.
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Many Europeans who consider themselves to be poor are rich by the standards of some Third World countries.
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Safety standards are simply not being maintained.
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Shakespeare is the standard against which all playwrights must be measured.
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The standard of workmanship on this table is extraordinarily high.
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The industry standard of temperature for shipping produce is 41 degrees Fahrenheit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Many of them are of a Victorian standard and need considerable investment.
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Ministers have shifted their focus from primary standards to the lack of pupil progress at key stage 3.
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Months of wrangling over new production standards for the vaccine and new inspection procedures followed.
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Similarly, your internal editor insists that you create documents based on equally arbitrary and unattainable standards.
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The organisation published a draft standard on computer graphics at the end of March.
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They need a person who sets standards of competence and integrity to be aimed at.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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A motorised telescopic steering column is fitted as standard , as is an electrically adjustable seat with a memory function.
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What finally evolves as standard jargon may be entirely different than anything suggested so far.
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A plastic dust extraction adaptor is included as standard .
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Already the story was being repeated as standard history.
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All 605s are fitted with a three-way catalytic converter, anti-lock braking system and an ultrasonic alarm as standard .
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Now they're arguably the easiest of all classics to look after, and come brimming with character as standard .
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On the other hand it does not provide remedies for production problems which can be applied as standard recipes or procedures.
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With anti-lock as standard , they respond smoothly and effectively to instruction and show no signs of fade during repeated hard stopping.
■ NOUN
bearer
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All regiments may include a standard bearer and/or musician, and these cost double the points value of an ordinary trooper.
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Their presidential standard bearer was criticizing the woman they love to hate.
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Obviously, the regiment must include a standard bearer before it can be given a magic standard.
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Mr. Hill was an important standard bearer .
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Ronald Reagan was not without handicaps and dissatisfaction with both of the party's standard bearers in this election was unusually widespread.
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Niblit replaces the normal battle standard bearer option in the army list.
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The army general and standard bearer are very important to the Empire army.
deviation
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Five replicates were performed per drug dilution and the standard deviation of the mean is shown.
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In either case the system is out-of-control, although all values lie within the 2 standard deviation range. 62.
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The distribution remains normal but the standard deviation decreases as the square root of n, the sample size.
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Mean and standard deviation figures therefore include these two patients.
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Means and standard deviations of the variables used in the subsequent analyses are presented in Table 1.
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The variation in salinity at a depth of 1,600m has been less than standard deviations from the 1975-78 mean.
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Eighty-two percent of the papers are published within one standard deviation on either side of the mean.
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The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve.
equipment
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This limit does not apply to standard equipment that is fitted by the manufacturer.
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They provide information for the receptionist when dealing with enquiries for the guests as to what standard equipment is in the room.
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Apple computers have long been standard equipment in the graphics and photographic industry.
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The ventilator, improved and updated, is now standard equipment in most operating theatres around the world.
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Be advised, however, that with its high level of standard equipment , the Mountaineer is not cheap.
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Government engineers bought sub-standard equipment , inflated the price, and pocketed the difference.
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For the same price - around nine grand - standard equipment is better, including remote-control central locking and a sunroof.
error
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There are also facilities to display the data's standard errors and select polynomial and rational functions.
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Thaler and Rosen reported several estimates with confidence limits around each, based on their standard errors .
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The reason for their very big standard errors become clearer from the specification of the leisure effects.
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Data are expressed as mean percentage of T cells binding from three replicate wells; lines represent standard errors .
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The bar lines denote standard errors .
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This gives a total of 16 out of 36 which could be solved using standard error correction algorithms.
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Additionally, the standard errors of the estimated coefficients are larger in Models 2 and 3 than in Model 1.
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Three pieces of daub were dated and provided an average age and standard error of 830 plus/minus 40 years.
fee
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Fees Search work will be charged for on a standard fee basis.
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It has sought to identify what criteria must be met before any standard fees system could be workable.
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Of immediate concern to the profession was the Lord Chancellor's introduction of standard fees for magistrates' court work.
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The first of these, standard fees in the magistrates' courts, is to be introduced in January 1993.
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A standard fee was then imposed.
form
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This contract, which is reproduced here, is a typical example of a standard form contract found in the haulage industry.
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Furthermore the finding itself - that women in each class use more standard forms than men - is not without problems.
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However, with standard form contracts directed at consumers, the legislature has interfered because of the imbalance in bargaining power.
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The standard form 1980 provides a procedure where the client puts forward three specialists whom he would be happy to see used.
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Again standard forms can be used and copies should be sent to all interested parties.
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This is best obtained by asking interviewees to complete standard forms or to take tests before or between interviews.
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It is usually written on a standard form , but not necessarily.
gauge
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The YC5 or YC6 fits both the fine and standard gauge machines.
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At least when you're knitting on the bigger gauges you have fewer rows to knit than on a fine or standard gauge.
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Finally, one exciting development is the electronic intarsia carriage for use with the standard gauge electronic machine.
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The line was seven miles long, single track, and of standard gauge .
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All these accessories fit all Silver standard gauge punchcard machines.
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Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine.
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Apart from these, the other accessories available for the standard gauge models are not available for the fine and chunky gauges.
issue
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A free link to the Maker is supplied as standard issue to every Earthling, fully installed by him from the womb.
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They fitted pretty well, but were standard issue .
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Police said he was shot by a standard issue SA80 rifle, one of the Army's deadliest weapons.
method
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All gliders and light aircraft have to recover satisfactorily with the standard method .
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And the standard method of teaching was sheer translation.
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Aggregation results in mixed or compound Poisson distributions which can not be fitted by standard methods .
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The washing of the northern blots was carried out according to standard methods .
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Bound antibodies were detected with an alkaline phosphatase conjugate by standard methods .
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Writing of names A standard method of writing names should be adopted.
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If you are using packaged binaries, you should install as per the standard method for your distribution.
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Myc point mutants were generated by site-directed mutagenesis using standard methods .
model
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The concept of an advantageous mutation spurring evolution is the standard model with which evolutionists still work.
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On the standard model , water passes via a duct under and thence through the media.
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In the third stage, production consists mainly of standard models and there is a reluctance to undertake specials.
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Then we tried to get a pair of shoes, also a standard model .
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The assumptions about classical conditioning that are implied by this notion must be rather different from those embodied in the standard model .
practice
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The first is the wide variation in specification and finish that are standard practice in the motor industry.
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Win had also used a false name through the years, standard practice for officers engaged in covert work.
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This was, in fact, standard practice and Barratt was fully aware of it.
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But fee waiving is standard practice among money funds.
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This was formerly standard practice but had lapsed in recent years.
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This, I learned, was standard practice when a customer was about to be sacrificed for the greater good of Salomon.
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This is standard practice , but such an event is unlikely.
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Philip Redfern suggested it should become standard practice for statisticians to put their professional advice on the record.
procedure
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Again this is a standard procedure throughout Grimes.
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All teams were responsible for developing their own approach to self-management; there were no standard procedures .
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No two old people will react the same way, so no standard procedure can be recommended.
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No one asked me about follow up phone calls made to me by their offices, standard procedures for campaigns.
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From 1754 onwards marriages were entered on printed forms, otherwise no standard procedure was laid down until 1813.
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This is a standard procedure whenever there is a dispute over the availability of a privilege.
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For all his standard procedures , I don't think he is actually imitating anybody.
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Kinase labelling, hybridisation, and washing of the blots was performed at 42°C according to standard procedures .
rate
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Turns on to headings will be made at the standard rate , but using the stop-watch, not magnetic compass.
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The standard rate for a federal student loan that does not require a co-signer is now 8. 25 percent.
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His ambition was to reduce the standard rate of tax to 25p in the pound by the next election.
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Discounts typically run 10 percent to 60 percent off standard rates .
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Thus after year six, your monthly payments are higher than the standard rate demands.
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When charges are made, standard rates apply for the services provided to our personal customers.
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The standard rate is 17.9 per cent.
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The last Labour Government put up the standard rate to 35p.
set
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Each machine comes with a standard set of at least 35 different type-faces.
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The companies said they will share technology and develop a standard set of communication protocols.
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Proof correction marks a standard set of signs and symbols used in copy preparation and to indicate corrections on proofs.
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But they were built to a safety standard set 30 years ago.
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Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world.
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This approaches the standard set by the patient's charter.
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The standard set of Spectrum keys have been added to in an intelligent way too.
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There is a standard set of terms for the conduct of an arbitration.
size
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They must conform to the pattern and standard size laid down by the Post Office.
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Why did he not decide to reduce the three para battalions to the new standard size ?
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How many standard sizes do Beaver offer and why is this important?
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All the pallets were of a standard size which Bob guessed to be about four feet square, about sixty-four cubic feet.
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The 20-strong team cuts the material into standard sizes and Robert liaises with sales offices on orders and delivery dates.
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They come in a fairly wide range of standard sizes .
work
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This remained a standard work well into the next century.
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She published extensively on the technology of New World pottery, and wrote a standard work , Ceramics for the Archaeologist.
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By far the most exciting is Molecular Biology of the Cell, which will surely become the standard work for cell biology.
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For the expert the book will certainly become a standard work of reference.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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standard size paper
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A work week of forty hours is standard in the U.S.
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All hand-baggage was X-rayed - this is now standard practice at most airports.
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Drug tests are a standard procedure following train accidents.
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Prices start at $15,489 for the standard model.
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Students are encouraged to learn standard English because this is what they will need to know in the business world.
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Supermarkets typically have six standard food departments.
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We make shoes in all standard sizes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In telephone and face-to-face selling standard sales pitches are used, regardless of the specific needs of the customer.
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Letters can be compiled from standard paragraphs stored in the memory.
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Most industrial/commercial concerns will have such standard costs calculated for their ranges of products.
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You must know the rules and be familiar with standard market terminology.