Sentences with phrase «lowering of standards»

Certainly, such a bankruptcy would mean a drastic lowering of our standard of living, a further loss of control over international affairs, a sudden need to adjust to the rise of other powers, including China and India, and a further discrediting of the notion that the United States is somehow exceptional compared to other nations.

Let us know when it isn't the remarkable lowering of standards that you can just expect your kids to get an A (or 4.0) just for showing us.

This is 2 tell u hw low of standard Arsenal have been to hv still stick to these guys....

But an even greater problem is the lowering of standards to accommodate a leader's sin,» wrote pastor and author John MacArthur, assessing in the 1990s how to restore fallen pastors.

The tendency of the style of theology I am suggesting is toward activism, or if not that, toward a lowering of standards for reflection.

Responding to the report, Chief Executive of Sustain Kath Dalmeny said: «The BEIS Committee quite rightly unanimously rejected any «race to the bottom» on food as UK consumers will not tolerate any lowering of standards.

If there is to be blame for a lowering of standards of behavior let's put it where it deserves to be and that is with OUR generation.

«If you're talking about a lowering of standards, I think you clearly need to look at that proposal,» Elia said.

State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says it's not a lowering of standards.

While the laws require reasonable accommodations for disabled individuals, they do not require fundamental alterations or the lowering of standards.

Common Core standards are significantly more demanding, so if we raise standards and don't increase support and capacity building, the schools won't meet the standards, which over time will lead to either lowering of standards or increased resistance on the part of teachers and schools.»

With reports that some of the nation's finest universities have been handing out A's like lollipops at Halloween, the lowering of standards in higher education has become a hot topic.

In my last blog, I made the case that the recent headline - grabbing strikes of school teachers are a response to an increasingly beleaguered occupation, which, under increasing attack in recent years, is proving to be increasingly unattractive to capable high school students, provoking a lowering of standards for becoming a licensed teacher, thereby making the loud outcry about «stagnant» student performance a joke.

It has now been just over a month since RBC Direct Investing announced the lowering of their standard trading commissions and in that time, the predicted response from several other bank - owned online brokerages has materialized.

Aside from being a major win for DIY investors, the lowering of standard commission prices showed just how important pricing is to the online brokerage world.

It is an investment - grade index, with 40 % of its bonds residing in the «BBB» rated category from a conservative ratings approach that takes the lowest of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, Moody's, and Fitch.

Which is easily traced back to a pathetic Net Interest Margin of 0.76 % — reflecting their high funding costs, and the lowering of their standard variable mortgage rate.

On a positive note there shouldn't be any lowering of the standard of the Business Class cabin as both the 777 - 300 and the A330 - 200 offer the same very good Business Class seat (reviewed here).

What most hurts contemporary art, a lowering of standards in the name of critical theory — or a commodity culture that breeds amnesia about past experiments?

Now, I think the point is that Surrealism also had certain popular elements that could appeal to a large public like the postcard color, the use of realistic, naturalistic techniques, as in Dali - so that this was a kind of dilution of the values that had existed; there was a lowering of the standard that Cubism had.

The talk of atypical weather conditions has now turned into «unprecedented climate extremes» signifying a lowering of standards to the point that the normal terminology such as «climate» has become rabid in the hands of modelers --

A lowering of the standard for proving that patent cases are exceptional, where the patent owner has lost, would clearly cause patent owners (including trolls), to not only think twice but to think deeply before filing a lawsuit.

Assuming Britain could even get its foot in the door (President Obama showed no desire to prioritise a lonesome UK over other nations), could we avoid a lowering of standards and ISDS?