Sentences with phrase «failure by most standards»

That's a complete failure by most standards.

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Evangelical fitness maven Stormie Omartian led the way (even while plugging her own diet and exercise plan) by addressing, in 1984 and again in 1993, the tyranny of contemporary body standards and noting that most dieters carry on a self - defeating battle with food and exercise that is «a prelude to the most intense feelings of failure.»

One can take this as a cultural bias, or take it as a tribute.3 In any case the fact is that the woman who fails to measure up in some way to the higher standards expected of her is more likely to excite the contempt of those around her, to forfeit the respect of her children, and (what is most important to our theme) to be dogged by a deep inner sense of personal failure.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

«The extent of complacency and failure to adhere to the most basic security standards, uncovered by my investigation, was egregious and inexcusable,» said Leahy Scott.

DeVos intentionally decimated education for Michigan's most vulnerable students and spent millions to block any accountability for charter schools that were abysmal failures by any standard.