Sentences with phrase «by the standards of»

Not to mention that, by the standards of the insular world of Canadian finance, he's crude.

The numbers are not large by the standards of political donations but they mark the first time the industry has tilted its contributions toward Republicans, according to federal records.

(Obamacare changed much of that, but it's leagues behind the NHS if you're comparing them by the standard of universal full - service coverage.)

By the standards of this list, Tuxedo Park's denizens are relative teetotallers, preferring instead to get their fix on the courts of the nearby Tuxedo Tennis Club.

And that takes me back all the way to my father, who specifically had left me, by the standards of those days, a silver spoon — but still a tiny paper, half a tiny paper, my sisters and I.

This burst of candor may strike the reader as disarming or annoying, but either way, by the standards of the countless books that offer business or self - help advice, it's startling: The whole premise of such titles is that you know very little, and whatever you think you know is dead wrong.

That's young, even by the standards of Silicon Valley, where many venture capitalists unapologetically prefer to fund youth over experience.

Those charges alone will amount to $ 2 billion, an extremely large allotment for stock compensation even by the standards of the tech industry, which often pays its employees with equity.

He's smart, he's funny, even if in kind of a gross way, and he's already famous by the standards of millions of 14 - year - old girls.

On the contrary the Jewish interest is solely in the marketing of petroleum products and even there it is probably no more than 5 per cent, the chief marketer being American Oil of Baltimore, and American Oil, though still managed by the Blausteins, who founded it, is now controlled by a Standard of Indiana subsidiary.

This clip from CBC's Power & Politics gets fairly heated, at least by the standards of Canadian politics (skip to around 6:30 in the video):

The future Cohen and DeLong articulate is grim, but mostly by the standards of a country unused to being «normal.»

Facebook is finding itself under almost constant pressure to be more transparent, despite the fact that by the standards of some legacy media it is the model of openness.

And by the standards of other institutions in Washington and central banks the Fed is highly respected.

Australian markets are not large by standards of the global leaders in New York and London, but nor are they inconsequential (Table 1).

Even by the standards of the commodity business (and the commodity trading business in particular) Glencore is known for its appetite for political and legal risk, and its willingness to deal with sketchy counterparties.

... Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world's largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo's real estate lending arm... An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $ 325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.

By any standard of democracy, the protestors» demands are reasonable.

Since risk spreads for most borrowers have also declined this means that overall borrowing costs for rated borrowers, corporate and most governments, are low by the standards of the past few decades.

Sustaining the surge in US oil production will require prices that are high by the standards of a decade ago.

By the standards of political documents, that had very high integrity, but the standard is low.

Even if they thought McCain was wrong, the median voter would hardly doubt that he was sincere and informed (by the standards of public officials.)

That was the whole point — that one could be driven to revolutionary action by standards of justice that are higher than the law, and against which the law is judged.

by standard of hindu Mithra ism, racist savior ism labeled as Christianity, he can not be a man, but an Enoch, reason hindus, ignorant s worship them as their hindu sanatans filthy goon man gods.

Our present global warming is not at all unusual by the standards of geological history, and it is probably benefiting the biosphere.

You're a bad muslim by standard of 1.6 billion people.

By your standard of judging, Mein Kampf, Das Capital, heck, maybe even the writings of Anton Lavey would ALSO be included in Jeremy's canon because it «accurately reveals the heart of man instead of the heart of God.»

For example, the prophet Amos was an uncultured person by the standards of either his time or ours, yet an important contributor to Hebrew culture.

«By the standards of the time, which is the 7th century A.D., the laws of war that are laid down by the Quran are actually reasonably humane,» he says.

People who teach their children to live by a standard of purity teach their children what to do about sin.

What actuial harm is being done, by any standard of the word that has any meaning?

These were liberal in atmosphere, by the standards of Catholic Ireland of the time.

As pointed out earlier, the requirement of communicability is one of the qualities of a good religion, judged by the standard of «community».

Today the greatest restriction on theologians is there desire to do work that is recognized as appropriate by the standards of the university.

This means that you are not — by the standards of humanity, according to the spectrum of what you could do in this life — «as» evil as Hitler.

He's always judging me by his standards of living and acting «holier than thou.»

For many people it can come from reading the Bible and finding that it contains some good morals, but also errors, contradictions, hypocrisy, nonsense and IMMORALITY by the standards of many people who follow the Golden Rule today.

Sanneh observes that «people want to interpret Christianity by standards of exegesis and doctrine familiar to them, something that the Christendom model of the church warranted.

For instance, in a discussion of apartheid, David Field remarks: «From a Christian point of view, it is important to examine the case for apartheid in some detail... because among its strongest supporters it numbers Christians who claim to have tested their attitudes and opinions by the standards of Scripture» (Free to Do Right [InterVarsity, 1976], p. 19).

Much of the society for which they labored was not particularly well «educated or informed even by the standards of the day.

By any standard of the American Success Syndrome, Amos was a failure.

By your standards of what can or can not be defined as a historic symbol, museums would be nothing more than collections of dirt, rock and water.

And yet the Bible â $ «whether inerrant or divinely inspired â $ «offers us an approximation that is terrible even by the standards of the ancient world.

That makes evangelical Iowans unusually influential even by the standards of the national Republican Party, in which evangelical Christians have constituted the base since Ronald Reagan was elected president.

Commentators reassure us that by the standards of the day he was not really a derelict host, nor were Jesus» words to him intended to be rude.

This book looks gaunt by the standards of today's obese single - volume biographies, but Prior neatly packages a story of how one woman sought to expand «the moral imagination through her words.»

I have no proof you are real.I can not physically see you therefor by the standards of many atheists, you do not exist.

By the standards of the 7th century, the laws of war that are laid down by the Quran are pretty humane.

Not a good idea of health and happiness by the standards of normal people.

To measure the degree of certitude of testimony of the absolute by the norm of one of the functions of consciousness is to surrender the problematic of self - consciousness to the most deplorable metabasis eis allo genos.22 Original affirmation can not be subsumed by the standard of knowledge of objects.