Sentences with phrase «setting arbitrary standards»

And I'm tired of the various «caucuses» setting arbitrary standards entirely of their own creation, then decreeing that whomever does not meet that standard is «disrespecting» them.

The regulations set an arbitrary standard for the «other indicators of student success or school quality» — and then make sure those indicators won't matter anyway.

While emissions standards have a noble objective, what we need much, much more than legislators setting an arbitrary standard is a gas tax.

Not exact matches

A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

In a sweet, gently didactic scene, he kisses Linda's C - section scars and laughs at suburbia's «idiots» who set arbitrary, punishing standards of beauty and puritanical standards of conduct.

Many liberal educators hold that the primary goal for education is for children to become autonomous, to develop fully who they are in the classroom setting without having arbitrary, outside standards forced upon them.

Supporters of the No Child Left Behind Act may point to the greater accountability and higher standards set forth in the law, but opponents may counter with arguments that the law relies too heavily on testing, is too punitive, and sets standards that are arbitrary.

Goal setting based on individuals» relative capacities, then measuring success through change quotient vs an arbitrary general standard is a proven method for adults in a business setting.

And, to make matters worse, the former Education Commissioner agreed to set a cut - score which establishes an arbitrary level of proficiency such that only 30 % of students taking the test will meet that passing standard.

You set up an arbitrary standard that most indies don't care for and declare all indies failures?

In the end who is anyone to say someone shouldn't publish if their book doesn't jump through some arbitrary set of standards and cost some arbitrary amount of money to be «properly whatevered».

However, Mann et al 08 kept both the soon - to - be controversial Briffa and Tiljander proxy data sets in play and used them along with the other specific data sets that comported to their arbitrary «objective standards».