Sentences with phrase «held to high standards by»

And they are held to high standards by the government for a reason.

«Pet stores that house companion animals are held to high standards by government regulators, the animal welfare community, the media and consumers,» said Marshall Meyers, Executive Vice President, PIJAC.

Charter schools are already held to high standards by their authorizers, and if they do not perform on task, there are very real consequences.

Brainstorm on notable figures throughout our community, our government and in pop - culture who are held to high standards by the public but make mistakes nonetheless.

Because these people (priests and pastors) are held to a higher standard by virtue of their position, yet they routinely abuse their power.

Not exact matches

That may sound self - evident, but too many people skip this step and try to make themselves happy by chasing ever - higher goals, or holding themselves to ever - greater standards of perfection.

As a professional athlete, you are constantly being judged by how hard you work, how well you take care of your body, how professional you are with media and in the community — you are a brand and are expected to hold yourself to a higher standard.

Earn the right to hold others accountable to high standards by meeting them yourself.

We will only accomplish this goal by ensuring that we (the employees and contractors at Coinbase) all hold ourselves to a high standard of conduct.

According to a recent national survey commissioned by the Business Council of Canada and conducted by Ipsos, Canadians themselves are nearly unanimous in wanting to see this country's companies held to the highest ethical standards, both at home and abroad (93 per cent agree).

The libertarian threat to higher education in the name of productivity is seen in the «public policy» think tanks influencing Republican governors to «disrupt» higher education by holding it to the standard of measurable competencies, sometimes beginning and ending with salaries offered to graduates.

The best way of making certain you pay the least taxes possible is to take them to certified public accountant (CPA), a designation used only by accountants who have passed a very difficult exam and are held to high standards of ethics.

By holding everyone along the commodity chain to the highest standards possible can we create reliable, credible coffee products that we can truly say link conservation to the market place.

We hold ourselves to the same high standards exhibited by athletes who fully embrace true sport.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Feature - rich models made by top companies like Maclaren are often setup next to cheaper versions that seem to share a lot of the look - n - feel of the name brands but in truth lacks the durability standards that the higher quality model may hold to.

Their mission is to create ultra-comfy and stylish cotton apparel and accessories that don't hurt people — all products are ethically made by workers being paid living wages, and are held to the highest environmental and social standards.

Since that is not an option and in this environment learning by experience is not a good idea; you need to test the child proof factor of your home by holding it to some high standards.

My daycare is inspected randomly by the Department of Children and Families, and I am held to the same high standards as a commercial daycare.

The products and services you see here have been rigorously evaluated by consumers and experts around the world and are held to the highest standards of excellence.

It holds itself to the highest possible standard of safety and each stroller purchase is backed by their lifetime warranty, highlighting their commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.

However, some states, such as Georgia, have used this flexibility to create a loophole from compliance with the standards by setting a high number for how many exempt fundraisers schools can hold per year.

Holding the language of public discourse against the highest standards of reason and integrity is a responsibility shared by politicians and the media, and to a considerable extent, civil society.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was barraged by a fresh round of questions about the investigation into his fund - raising, and reiterated: «(W) e hold ourselves to the highest standard of integrity.

The law creates more transparency in local government by holding all county elected officials to a high standard of conduct and enforces stricter penalties for those who do not abide.

When confronted by a crush of reporters after leaving an event in Midtown on Thursday, de Blasio said, «We hold ourselves to the highest standard of integrity, everything we've done from the beginning is legal and appropriate.»

We hold all of our products in this review to high quality and durability standards, but this hot tub goes above and beyond by providing extra support in the walls.

Navy Cmdr. Harmon «Harm» Rabb (David James Elliott), an ace pilot turned lawyer, and Marine Lt. Col. Sarah «Mac» MacKenzie (Catherine Bell), a beautiful by - the - book officer, are colleagues who hold the same high standards but find themselves clashing when they choose different routes to get to the same place.

So any kind of movie that combines the things that appeal to the target audiences of these pop culture trends is going to be held to a much higher standard by Vince than some whimsical kitchy Wes Anderson slog about daddy issues, with adults dressed as children in amateur theater in monotone.

Only by holding our next generation to the highest global standards and providing quality education to match can the United States hope to compete in the world.

Kamras: A quality teacher, in my view, is someone who: 1) knows his / her subject matter with great proficiency; 2) has the demonstrated capacity — as measured by quantifiable student achievement — to share that knowledge with children; 3) holds all children, regardless of background, to the highest of standards of excellence; 4) leads by taking full responsibility for his / her students» achievement; and 5) inspires students to pursue dreams they never imagined.

By embracing the report of his Common Core task force, which calls to «revisit» the standards and «right the ship,» Cuomo is showing he lacks — forgive me — the cojones to hold the line on higher expectations.

This injustice is made even more onerous by the rising importance of standards - based school reform, which seeks to hold all students and schools accountable to higher levels of learning.

While this approach would seem to resemble an exclusionary policy, it aims to remove a sense of unfairness from the disciplinary scheme by holding all students to uniformly high standards.

A high standard might hold that access to high - quality schools does not vary by students» socioeconomic status.

A contractor who holds a current UKATA certificate will have passed a rigorous training programme to a high standard of competence and gives the school duty holder the confidence that the job will be carried out with an appreciation of the risks posed by asbestos and will undertake the work accordingly.

KIPP Delta is held to high standards for academic results and financial discipline by its Board of Directors, KIPP Foundation, and the state of Arkansas.

By elevating what we do, and holding ourselves to the highest standards, we are working to make generations of students who will be prepared, confident and analytical.

More recently, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act sought to hold students and schools accountable to achieve high academic standards measured by high - stakes testing.

«They insult both parents, children and teachers by phasing in standards that have flaws and inappropriate tests that are used to evaluate teachers, as well as hold high stakes consequences for kids,» she continues.

By requiring the states to set high standards, pairing them with assessments that measured whether students were achieving those standards, and holding schools accountable if students failed to do so, NCLB, in the eyes of its sponsors, would close achievement gaps and make America's schools the envy of the world.

The tragic flaw in the thinking of many national - standards supporters is not the desire to create high bars for students to clear, but the utter delusion, or maybe just myopia, that allows them to assume that they will control the standards in a monopoly over which, by its very nature, they almost never hold the reins.

The Huffington Post reports that in remarks before a dinner hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday, the former president hailed the potential of charter schools, even as he called on them to be held to high standards.

But these stories, and countless others like them, show us that when we believe in our students — by holding them to the same high standards as their peers, by giving them high - quality school options, by holding ourselves accountable for the quality of their learning — they can and do achieve great things.

The Indiana Department of Education has argued that rural schools, which often combine middle and high school buildings, are judged by the same standards to which IPS is held.

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous March 2017 decision in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District is holding school districts to a higher standard by requiring «appropriately ambitious» programs.

The dues - collection model of revenue embraced by the two unions effectively forces them to focus more on growing the teaching ranks and keeping them employed than on improving professionalism and holding members to high, well - defined, and metrics - driven standards.

Some teachers operating under traditional grading systems hold students to high academic standards, generating course grades largely uncontaminated by factors unrelated to the academic standards identified in the district's stated curriculum.

Nebraska can help ensure that substitute teachers are held to high standards and have access to the supports necessary to improve their practice by requiring evaluations — which it may find appropriate to modify from its standard, state - required teacher evaluations — of long - term substitutes.

Though the book is endorsed by Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, the call for decreased teacher empathy appears to rail against the biggest tenets of teacher training by Teach for America and other reform minded teacher - education programs, which want teachers to see the stories behind the students and embrace their cultures, while finding ways to hold students to high standards (Teach for American, 2016).