Sentences with phrase «lowering standards»

Seems that with Machete Kills, along with lowering my standards of moviegoing entertainment (I paid $ 8.75 to see Miss San Antonio, not Mel Gibon... or even a Chuck Sheen who's seemingly undergoing an identity crisis as he's credited as Carlos Estévez for the first time in... well, years), I've also gone ahead and broken a long - standing moviegoing rule of mine — to avoid seeing a sequel before getting to see the original first.

So next time you find yourselves sputtering mad over the cultural perversity of The Twilight Saga and its ability to rake in billions of sparkle - tainted dollars, an even more culpable target for lowering the standards of cinema can be found merely by looking at kiddie flicks, which undoubtedly kick starts bad taste in movies.

Hooking up with a girl you're not attracted to isn't actually lowering your standards since you still don't find her attractive.

Lower Your Standards (and Date Hotter Girls) discuss how lowering your standards can actually lead you inexperienced with women and dating, As for your standards, if YOU see lowering them as an option, maybe it is an option.

Talk about something that lowering standards dating helps the teachers and parents for the school to be engaged before.

You may be considered slumming it even or lowering your standards.

Don't compromise if it means lowering your standards for less than you deserve.

By broadening the scope of faculty searches, academic science departments could, similarly, diversify their faculties without lowering standards.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

«What this year's data really shows is that the de Blasio administration is simply lowering standards to boost graduation rates,» said Jeremiah Kittredge of Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter group.

However, Pallotta said lowering the standards is the wrong approach and will hurt children.

«If that were true, they would be lowering their standards.

But we aren't lowering the standards: we are redefining them.

Anyone else is lowering our standards I disagree with you about your comment in having a healthy debate and respecting other peoples options.

Why do we have to keep lowering our standards each passing day.

The wider issue highlighted by the scandal is how demand for cheap meat of all kinds is lowering standards across the board, and is being driven by large supermarket chains.

This follows the model of TransfairUSA (now rebranded as FairtradeUSA) in lowering standards so that plantations could get certified in a system meant for the 25 million small scale farmers around the world.

Complexity can be increased easily by lowering the standards of simplicity, with the extreme case being sheer conjunction: a and b and c and d and n.

So I disagree about «lowering our standards» on the meaning of the word miracle.

To widen the market for home ownership, banks had to write more mortgages, and this required lowering their standards.

When she first started talking about how the school needed to become more diverse, she says, «I was surprised to find out the meme around Harvey Mudd was that we are a merit - based institution and bringing in more women or people of color would mean lowering our standards.»

Besides being a powerbroker, China is widely regarded as having lower standards than the U.S. for labor and the environment.

The UWC, which uses a different, lower standard of evidence than law enforcement to reach a verdict quickly, delivered a ruling within five months.

Don't lower your standards.

If your investments lose significant value as you are preparing to tap them, you may have to work longer than you had planned or accept a drastically lowered standard of living in retirement — or both.

Sports teams with low standards don't win very often.

If low standards prevail, those too will quickly spread.»

If a company or team operates with low standards, a new employee will often — perhaps even unwittingly — adjust their work ethic accordingly.

In this interview with Patrick Bet - David of Valuetainment, multimillionaire sales guru Grant Cardone expounds upon entrepreneurship, why people lower their standards and why being a gold digger is a good thing.

I have a lot of tricks to get those first few words on the page, maybe the best one is something I heard from a poet during his reading; «To cure writer's block just lower your standards.»

There are lots of other car companies with much lower standards.

Her entire life has been a string of hard - won, improbable triumphs, and she is loath to lower her standards to anything less than spectacular.

It's stocks with a low standard deviation and a low beta that interest Masson most.

People who think they need to trade daily will often lower their standards, chase the market, force trades, or some combination of all three.

I've been well over the 20X income multiple for the past several years and I can assure you that I have no fear of running out of money or being forced to live a lower standard of living.

He addressed this problem a bit by lowering the bottom rate to 10 percent from 12 percent in the campaign plan, but it's still likely that a Trump proposal that includes these elements will result in a tax increase for millions of middle - class people, and the lower standard deduction doesn't help:

2 For example, John suggested in February 2008 to lower the standard Taylor Rule prescription by 50 basis points to take into account the increase in the LIBOR - OIS spread at that time.

Author Charles Steindel explains that when the U.S. personal saving rate took a negative turn in second - quarter 2005, it raised concerns that Americans may have to curtail spending and accept a lower standard of living as they pay off rising debts.

Some of these agreements have resulted in significant market opening; others have been of lower standard and have dodged the tough issues necessary to maximize income gains from trade; still others have resulted in trade diversion rather than trade creation and have created a so - called «noodle bowl» of overlapping and sometimes contradictory agreements that have become a thicket of regulations that businesses often find difficult to understand.

Smaller, no - bid contracts have lower standards for review, which means they are even more prone to abuse.

His low - volatility portfolios consist of the 30 % of stocks with the lowest standard deviations of monthly total returns during the preceding 36 months, reformed monthly.

The product writ large is designed to reduce a diversified portfolio's correlation to the market, lower standard deviation (thus increasing a portfolio's Sharpe ratio) and ultimately deliver long - term returns in excess of the market.

So I find that a lot of people lower their standards on this point hoping for value appreciation to make up the difference.

He said, «We're looking very hard, but what we're not prepared to do is to lower our standards.»

Nevertheless, I never lowered those standards.

Being desperate will lead you to lower your standards, and it may cost you in the long run.

Talking heads were saying «This worldwide event could last for years; our children will have a lower standard of living than we have».

Previously, commission - based sellers fell under a lower standard, in which they were only legally bound to sell products that were «suitable» for the customer.

This leads to a lower standard of living in the U.S. in the long term as wages equalize.

To tie all these topics together, below is a new bracket with 8 benchmark indexes that shows that two indexes that buy VIX call options (LOVOL and VXTH) had the lowest standard deviations over the past decade.