Sentences with phrase «standards of the day»

So, a literal person, when told, the universe was created in six days will believe what our current day standard of a day is.

«Compare economic circumstances with the place you're in with economic living standards of the day,» he told voters.

I wasn't surprised at the sexual double standard of the day.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

It seems that maybe what John, Peter, James, and Jude did was go to a professionally trained letter writer and provided them with the basic ideas, arguments, and points they wanted to make in their letter, and then let the professional letter writer compose the letter according to the letter writing standards of that day.

By the conservative standards of his day, he seemed almost an infidel, refusing to attend a church or even to avow Christian faith.

Criterion preserves My Life as a Dog's original 1.66:1 widescreen aspect ratio (the European standard of its day), though typical overscan will render it indistinguishable from the current 1.78:1 norm.

And, in fact, the cars weren't modified to meet U.S. federal safety standards of the day, and a sticker inside the front trunk warns of that fact.

Most financial players were playing with tight balance sheets that did not have a lot of incremental borrowing power, even considering the lax lending standards of the day, and the high level of the stock market.

Suffice it to say that, in retrospect, we did pretty much everything wrong even while following dog training standards of the day.

His choosing to display Canova's white plaster sculptures against white walls in his renovation of the Gipsoteca Canoviana in 1955 was controversial by every museum standard of its day.

* Conduct daily pre-shift meeting to include Hilton and Vail Resorts standards of the day and safety topic of the day.

Designed by Dutch Architect Gerrit Rietveld in close collaboration with his client Truus Schroder, the home was considered radical for its time and broke with many architectural standards of the day.

And that takes me back all the way to my father, who specifically had left me, by the standards of those days, a silver spoon — but still a tiny paper, half a tiny paper, my sisters and I.

Commentators reassure us that by the standards of the day he was not really a derelict host, nor were Jesus» words to him intended to be rude.

The two greatest physicists in the nineteenth century, Faraday and Maxwell, were not only devout but unusually so, even by the standards of their day.

Now pit stops weren't exactly lightning fast back in 1983, but even by the standards of the day the Alfa mechanics were comically slow and de Cesaris dropped right back.

It was incredibly narrow, even by the standards of the day, and it often caused incidents at the start of races.

But that formation was the standard of the day.

A series of acquisitions judged expensive by the standards of the day built on foundations laid by George Graham in the middle of the decade.

During most of history, most parents provided either benign or not too benign neglect by the standards of the day.

According to McCormick, Machiavelli was not only a republican thinker, but by the standards of his day, and our own, a radically democratic one.

The depiction of the action is pretty good by the standards of the day, although the plot is somewhat predictable.

So many of the contemporary stories set during that more shameful chapter of America's past invent white role models who seem downright progressive by the standards of the day, and enlightened even by ours (à la Atticus Finch).

The 1999 DVD actually wasn't bad by the standards of the day, although it didn't resolve any of the grain or the fine detail, and this HD / 1080p upgrade doesn't screw with the colour - grading compared to that benchmark.

The original Honda NSX might have lacked the firepower we now expect from supercars, but it was light, advanced and spectacularly usable by the standards of the day.

Not that it was particularly hot, even by the standards of the day — its 1.6 - litre, four - cylinder engine produced 102bhp and the 0 - 62mph dash took a full 10.2 seconds.

While the engine remained relatively low - tech even by the standards of the day, it delivered a rorty note and great throttle response, allowing the SportKa to sprint to 62mph in 9.7 sec and finally crest 100mph, with a 108mph max.

The first Civic was tiny by the standards of the day, yet it offered functional 4 - passenger seating and usable cargo space from its hatchback design (a «sedan» model was also available that first year).

Considering the time and the standards of the day, I'm not surprised at his reaction.

Or reverse the direction of time travel and think backwards: Today's comparatively gigantic 40 - inch $ 300 TV works out to $ 47 in 1965 dollars, a garage sale price by the standards of the day.

Although relatively small (25ft overall) she had two berths and, by virtue of her shape and light construction, was fast by the standards of the day.

Resistance to the standards of the day.

In accordance with the standards of the day, Inco emitted refinery dust (nickel oxide) into the air from a giant smoke stack, much of which settled on its neighbours.

While the prohibitions against such practices may have been strengthened in recent years, these practices were clearly wrong, by the standards of the day, at the time that they were conducted.