Sentences with phrase «n't holding themselves to a higher standard»

Musk is also ticked off that the battery industry doesn't hold itself to a high standard of truthfulness (Tesla is preparing to construct a massive $ 5 - billion battery factory in Nevada).

You'll be responsible for creating a strong circle, and people will be hesitant to join your circle of influence if you aren't holding yourself to high standards.

Since some companies aren't holding themselves to a higher standard, it's our job to find those that do.

Why didn't Gleick hand his «investigation» over to someone who wasn't held to a higher standard of honesty?

Not exact matches

The Wisconsin Democrat argued that he is focused on holding Congress to high standards and said he hadn't compared the allegations against Moore and Trump.

Draper could certainly stand to deliver his disparagement with a bit more tact, but he's not wrong in holding the people who work for him to high standards.

«We believe that public officials must be held to a higher standard, and whether intentional or not, misusing taxpayer dollars is unacceptable,» wrote Sens. Johnny Isakson, R - Ga., and Jon Tester, D - Mont., chairman and ranking member of the Senate committee, and Reps. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., and Tim Walz, D - Minn., chairman and ranking member of the House committee.

Uber receipts are difficult to handle as well, a pain when doing expenses, Lyft is a much better experience for receipts, tipping and not to mention they hold a much higher standard of ethics as a business which counts.

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Those who would build empires — national, political, corporate, religious — should expect to be held to a higher standard, not a lower one, in keeping with their power and influence.

I think its refreshing that you admit that you do not hold yourselves to a higher standard that anyone else.

Perhaps when He says He «did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it,» He means that He intends to teach us not to be selectively literal, but to be introspectively literal, to apply God's teachings more aggressively to ourselves and hold ourselves to higher standards.

If someone can not further explain an answer without being accused of attempting to change their «wrong» answer (in your view) without admitting mistake then I guess you hold people to an impossibly high standard and as you say «one that you can not keep yourself.»

You are not so moral... and the recent events with in the catholic church, and the amazing silence from its adherents to the pope to clean house, is proof that the church holds society to a higher standard than it is able to meet itself..

I can not answer for Pence's heart and motivation behind his personal boundaries, but I do think we could benefit from more leaders — regardless of their ministry, industry or politics — who are willing to hold themselves to a higher standard of accountability and transparency.

However, the NY Magazine article highlights something very important — the people of God, who are called to hold to the highest standard of morals and ethics, now rank as the highest group percentage-wise of those who say that these things don't necessarily matter.

Right now, I'm trying to convince my daughter that she does not have to hold her friends to any higher standards than what they set for themselves.

So, why don't you try holding yourself to a higher standard when it comes to your morals and accountability and stop bashing those who already do.

Ya being Christian, we should be held to a higher standard, but not as perfect as Christ's.

I admit, if we weren't called to be in community and hold each other to a higher standard and help each other, I wouldn't go and I would seek just what I need to feel good.

This led to the concept of the sustainability journey being discussed further, as the group considered how you recognise commitment to meet the «high bar» and the journey producers are taking; reinforcing the fact that attaining a standard or holding a label is not the end result — sustainability is the ultimate goal.

A higher standard is held to rice used for brown rice protein because while heavy metal levels may read as «undetected» in rice, that does not mean their levels are zero but rather that they are below the small levels the test can detect.

That is life, not all that different from people going to a football game, tailgating, drinking during the game, and then proceeding to drive home after the game, both illegal but will anybody hold themselves to a higher standard?

Now that the team around him has gotten better in his absence, I don't think it's silly for the Vikings to «hope» they get their return on their investment on the QB reports still say the Vikings still hold to a high standard behind closed doors.

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

PU: I think that anyone who has a public image is held to a higher standard, whether he likes it or not.

Even with Messi on the pitch, Barcelona weren't playing at their usually high standards and Sevilla found it all too easy to hold on to the ball.

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.

Then again, I hold tight to certain standards that other parents don't put as high a value on.

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.

But the school lunch people are held to a higher standard, and they can figure out how to get them to eat better every day even though you can't do it even for one snack.

All new parents learn as they go, so don't hold yourself to too high a standard.

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.

Schools that have the means should be held to high standards, and schools that do not should be permitted to meet exemption requirements.

Yes you are a mom and we hold ourselves to a really high standard but you are not a super human.

While this may have worked for him in his bid to be elected President, it is not going to work as President because one is held to a higher standard the moment one assumes the high office of President.

A press that, while still working in a context of freedom, would be held to high ethical / journalistic standards, would be very much trusted - not in every leader's interest.

«As elected officials we must hold ourselves to a higher standard; these comments do not do that.»

DeRosa told the Post, «Elected officials don't get a pass just because they were elected — in fact, they should be held to a higher standard.»

I hold the Governor of NY to a very high standard — and just because others before him acted shamefully is not an excuse or a pass.

@Martin - I don't disagree (about the degree to which they are using public resources and should be held to higher standards), but the main difference is there isn't a distinct private ownership involved who would possibly try to fight (or purchase politicians to fight) those standards.

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.

«We'd like to believe that he is holding himself and others to the highest standard, but we don't have any independent verification of that,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group.

If we can not hold our own to a high moral standard in leadership and act accordingly in leadership positions, then we shouldn't expect other ethnic groups to respect our leadership.

«This is not a party line issue for me, it's about holding ourselves to the highest of standards while we hold these elected positions.

Maybe that doesn't seem like a lot, but with those cars much closer to being ready to roll, some 500,000 lives could be saved between 2020 and 2050, the team forecasts, compared with the imagined futures where people hold out for way higher safety standards.

Ibrahim wants colleagues in the international research community to hold fieldwork in Morocco, and more generally Africa, to the same high standards as elsewhere, insisting on geological context in published papers and not supporting the commercial trade of undocumented fossils.

Since current self - driving safety assurances aren't exactly airtight, Koopman argues that self - driving cars should be held to a way higher standard than human drivers — say, 10 times safer than the average human — before they're given the green light.

Not only does MCP require proteomics data to be of good quality and to be held to a high standard of rigor, but MCP also requires authors to demonstrate clearly the biological or biochemical significance of their data.

Think about it: If they think very little of themselves, they are not likely to hold themselves to a particularly high standard of conduct.