Sentences with phrase «against the standard of»

Frank Lentricchia, in his Modernist Quartet, makes the fascinating suggestion that the modernist writer defined himself against the standards of the mass market by becoming the champion of radical originality and the maker of a «one - of - a-kind-text.»

We need to respect our leaders, yet question them and their actions against the standard of the scripture.

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

Marsden notes how ironic it is that Christians are rigorously judged against the standard of rational objectivity at a time when the very possibility of rational objectivity — as an inheritance of the Enlightenment — is under widespread attack.

Most patients don't know that in clinical trials new cancer therapies are tested against the standard of care, not a placebo.

EFT has been found to be an «evidence - based» practice for anxiety, depression, phobias and PTSD when measured against the standards of the American Psychological Association's Division 12 Task Force on Empirically Validated Treatments.

The Board has written that the game was refused classification as one that depicts «matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.»

Let's look at YouTube and how it stacks up against the standards of effective training.

«In response to the need to improve state standards and create a common set of expectations for children across the country, Wisconsin was among the first of 48 states and territories to adopt the Common Core State Standards, a set of rigorous new standards that are benchmarked against the standards of high performing countries.»

Good coaches are always assessing their players, evaluating every throw, catch, set, shot, and rebound against the standard of excellence.

Such people may have good intentions but they rarely ever test their dogs against the standard of the breed.

Breed is judged against the standard of the Persian.

The American Kennel Club states «Testing gauges the dog's natural hunting ability and training against these standards of performance — Junior Hunter, Senior Hunter and Master Hunter.»

In determining winners, entries do not compete with one another, instead they are judged against a standard of excellence based on the long experience of Travel Weekly.

«depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.»

The report states this is «offensive or abhorrent in such a way that it offends against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that it should not be classified.»

an understanding that all online activity will be measured against the standard of public confidence in the justice system

Deficiency is to be judged against the standard of a doctor's professional work that is reasonably to be expected of the practitioner.

Administered weekly training of new methods of operation to new and current employees as supervisor, as well as evaluated employees against standards of operation

As in the international arena, the PJC inquiry dealt with the fundamental assumptions underlying the amendments to the NTA and evaluated these against the standard of equality.

The search for the perfect gift or throwing the perfect holiday party can activate an impulse to measure our self - worth against the standards of our «ideal» selves or others.

Last year the NAR Board of Directors approved a program that let's you test yourself voluntarily against a standard of excellence in about a dozen areas that are crucial to your profession.

Not exact matches

While, of course, to some extent this has to be true, especially in life - threatening situations - your employee can lead an evacuation down a fire escape but can't necessarily design standards for what is an acceptable or unacceptable level of smoke inhalation - it's important to simultaneously push against it, to let your employees know what they need to get done but not necessarily how they should go about designing their day and carrying out their duties.

At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.

In the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructure.

You can rail against the unfairness of this double standard, but a recent study out of the University of California at Berkeley has another, more retrograde suggestion: Try flirting instead.

Without evaluating each skill against a standard, Turner says,» you might find yourself being pressured in your mind to pick the best of a bad lot instead of running the whole thing over again.»

There would also need to be new security standards for this version of 5G, in order to «build a network that is inherently secure» against Chinese cyberattacks.

Unilever, for example, filed a suit against Hampton Creek last year claiming false advertising and unfair competition because Hampton Creek's Just Mayo doesn't contain eggs — a requirement under the current standard of identity for mayonnaise.

The main touted benefit is that a common international set of accounting standards will facilitate comparisons across countries — that you'll be able to stack an Australian mining company against a Canadian counterpart, for instance.

A coalition of adverse forces seemed allied against Foster's determination and high hopes: (1) there was potential for a strike, should Foster balk at union demands; (2) 1983 might have proved not even close to the bottom of the recession for heavy machinery; (3) who knew what EPA standards the former owner had let slide, that the new one might be called on to correct?

Carr says it actually means 35 ships a month instead of five, or about one additional tanker a day out of the Westridge Marine Terminal, with strict marine standards to guard against accidents.

BMW and Bang & Olufson at least have the right idea in this regard — they've decided against having a touchscreen in the 750xi in favour of a centre - console instrument panel with standard buttons and a knob.

What's more, a number of unions on college campuses are allying with non-governmental organizations, such as United Students against Sweatshops to hold corporations accountable for enforcing labor standards throughout their global supply chains.

He has also come out forcefully against the National Security Agency's mass surveillance practices — all ideas that tend to fly in the face of standard Republican thinking.

«The comments by Hope Solo after the match against Sweden during the 2016 Olympics were unacceptable and do not meet the standard of conduct we require from our national team players,» Gulati said in a press release.

Steve's new book, Ditch the Pitch: The Art of Improvised Persuasion, makes the case against a standard sales...

On December 2nd, Campbell Soup Company came out against the bill, saying that, «the current version of Senate Bill 58 would overhaul the current state policy on energy efficiency and renewable energy standards and discourage continued investment in renewable energy in the state:»

That shouldn't stop exchanges concerned about their reputations and corporate governance standards from leaning against the fashion — perhaps by limiting dual classes to the first five years of public ownership, or capping nonvoting stock at, say, 25 percent of all shares.

According to the Bilur website, this price is calculated daily against the Standard & Poor's Platts Dated Brent assessment — the benchmark appraisal of physical cargoes of crude oil in the North Sea.

From allegations of sexual harassment against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to the court case against former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi stemming from complaints of abusive behaviour both inside and outside the workplace, recent high - profile cases of harassment and violence have made it clear that many organizations struggle to uphold appropriate standards of conduct within their ranks.

If there is a danger that monetary policy will be seen as «too difficult», there is also a risk that too much will be expected of it or, at least, that its success or failure will be judged against an impossibly - high standard: it can't cure the business cycle; it can't reduce inflation costlessly; and it can't be operated with surgical precision.

Our guide includes a breakdown of how REPAYE stacks up against Standard Repayment Plans if you've consolidated your loans (hint: it stacks up very well).

We've been working closely with our partners and exchanges to improve security protocols by utilizing NEM's built - in security features and adoption of industry standard best practices to help protect against future attacks.

If you doubt this, then perhaps you might explain why Wall Street has spent millions of dollars lobbying against the fiduciary standard.

There would be lawyers slobbering to get at class action lawsuits against financial institutions that clearly don't meet a reasonable standard of care.

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

In remarks at the AARP on Monday, Obama stressed the importance of imposing a cohesive standard mandating that all brokers and advisors working in the retirement space act in their clients» best interests to guard against conflicted advice that could harm investors.

According to an opinion by columnist Ronald Littlepage in the Florida Times - Union, «A representative of the Northeast Florida Builders Association, Neil Aikenhead, went so far in another e-mail as to make the ridiculous accusation that the higher standard «would be a crime against the environment» and that «this crime would be perpetrated by the St. Johns Riverkeeper, who while claiming to be working for the river, is in fact knowingly doing the precise opposite.»