Sentences with phrase «up to a standard as»

Nobody does interiors like Audi, but you could argue that the 2016 Audi Q5 family isn't quite up to the standard as cars like the A4, for example.

The C 450 AMG 4MATIC lives up to this standard as well because it adopts many of the new and significantly enhanced assistance systems that are also being used in the S - Class.

The unit must pass the program's housing quality standards and be maintained up to those standards as long as the owner receives housing assistance payments.

Not exact matches

However, he said he was concerned about the «disconnect» between the standard of proof required for designating a flight as a «White House support mission,» and the proof that was actually given to back up Mnuchin's travels.

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The decision may be a blow to the Republican Party's fundraising as it gears up for midterm elections in November with an unpopular president as its standard - bearer.

By its reserved standards — Winnebago is self - effacing in just the way you might expect a small - town Iowa company to be (and I say that as a native of Cedar Rapids)-- the company lit up the joint.

As you can see from these photos of Imperfect's «too ugly» for stores produce, these fruits and veggies aren't even that bad looking — they're just being held up to unreasonable beauty standards.

The scandal comes at a bad time for Japanese business as a whole, as prime minister Shinzo Abe is trying to drum up global investor confidence by touting improved corporate governance standards.

But it?s been a long time since the hotel was up to James Bond?s standards in Diamonds Are Forever, or featured as a hot spot in Elvis Presley?s Viva Las Vegas.

As the silicon valley dreamers begin to wake up, people are less excited about Box, though they are doing well by normal company standards.

Within two weeks they had already given up on the weekly updates and started giving me the standard excuses such as «we pitched them yesterday, it would be offensive to call them again today.»

I think it's important to set standards not only for yourself, but for your staff as well to keep the team morale up and ensure continued success day in and day out.»

But by giving people easy ways to mix up their workouts — say, boxing one day, aerial yoga the next — the company hopes to displace standard monthly gym memberships as the default option for exercise.

As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.

With KPMG stepping up and paying Lewis in full, it could encourage her other sponsors to follow suit, and hopefully lead to it becoming standard practice across the sport of golf, as well as other sports where athletes compete as individual contractors, such as tennis.

Trying to sound smart, as happened in Google, or following such «standard» fare as asking candidates where they want to be in five years, serves up answers that candidates can prepare for.

Brent, the ocean - going tanker standard, shot up to US$ 116 on fears of supply disruptions, even as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the North American benchmark, had not yet crossed the $ 100 threshold.

For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.

Until the ad industry comes to a consensus on viewability standards, which the Media Rating Council predicts will occur by the end of 2015, it's up to you as a brand or agency to educate yourself on why an ad would or wouldn't be considered viewable in different formats.

Today very few «cash registers» are set up to accept a phone instead of a credit card, and similarly only one widely available phone in the U.S., Google's Nexus S, is tricked out with the necessary chip for so - called Near Field Communications that the industry hopes to adopt as the standard for transferring data from phones to in - store terminals.

Many of the larger restaurant chains have said it can take up to a decade to implement the switch, as it requires investment from the suppliers and farmers to adhere to the new standards.

As opposed to just sending out a simple «sorry the network is slow, we're working on it» email, the company crafted a beautiful and dramatic video to acknowledge their performance wasn't up to standard, and to explain what they were doing to fix it:

The standard of request is even more bizarre in Australia, where tasks have included flying to Texas to collect an engagement ring, dressing up as a stormtrooper to walk a bride down the aisle on her wedding day, and being paid to find the best fried chicken in Sydney.

At Forbes, Marianne Bickle leads the charge for those who feel that bosses need to fight back against the impulse to loosen the rules as the temperature climbs, stressing that keeping productivity up means keeping the usual standards and practices in place.

We built up some nice savings before these moves so as long as the market goes in the right direction, I should be able to retire much earlier than most based on our current standard of living.

The contract comes with a return - of - premium death benefit as standard and investors up to 90 years old are eligible to purchase the product.

Our standard — and flat — maintenance contract includes a software and hardware refresh every three years — keeping your storage up to date as long as you're current on maintenance.

Oil and gas investments benefit from drilling budgets being standard in the industry as opposed to start - ups and movies which can see budgets fluctuate based on unforeseen events.

Don't go barking up the wrong tree in the Year of the Dog A predictable wave of profit taking and risk reduction, as is standard form ahead of US long weekends, dominated Friday session leading to USD gains as US yields pulled back.

Standard and Poor's sees a high risk that Spain, Italy, Portugal and France will not be able to carry through necessary reforms as the unemployed become less willing to put up with austerity, S&P's Germany head Torsten Hinrichs told a newspaper.

It took the group over 14 months to come up with guidelines for «impressions», so it can take just as much or more to come together on a «click standard.»

Her rhetorical style is decidedly not up to Trump's zany standard, but on this day it matched the U.S. president's manner of threat - making that is as ominous as it is vague, and subject to change according to the political whims, or winds.

«Dear Society, If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra and underwear, grabbing her crotch and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy, and offensive but you don't think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about «blurred» lines of consent and propagating rape culture, then you may want to reevaluate your acceptance of double standards and your belief in stereotypes about how men vs. women «should» and are «allowed» to behave.

HOWEVER, you do not have the authority to simply make up your own rules and should therefore not continue to say you are Catholic and write articles as such advocating your own thoughts and standards as though they are within the realm of Catholicism.

America doesn't need anymore reason for blokes to plot against us and you're just pouring alcohol on an already burning fire.Anyways, as much as I am angry and hurt by this, I agree with this scholar - we can print more and more and as Muslim we need to set the standard of rising up and REMAINING calm and not be the stereotype the world thinks we are of angry backward water buffalos.

I ask this because I've struggled with similar feelings throughout my life — processing various failures, weaknesses, and disappointments as practical signs that God is not for me, but against me — either toying with me, cursing me, punishing me, rejecting me, or choosing not to bless me for not living up to his standards.

This is not just true of impoverished people, addicts, prostitutes, and those we normally think of, but dignity extended to those who have been terribly wounded by the impossible standards of traditional religion can work wonders in showing people that God is not a tyrant whose expectaions we can never live up to, but a loving Father who takes us as we are.

To the cynic who might suggest that I come to terms with the differences within myself by taking a trip to Saudi Arabia, live a day in a life as Bouazizi only to realize that these differences should n`t exist, be curtailed, or that the makeup of the U.S is a standard makeup for the Middle East on its way in becoming good, or at least docile, I'll say this: grow uTo the cynic who might suggest that I come to terms with the differences within myself by taking a trip to Saudi Arabia, live a day in a life as Bouazizi only to realize that these differences should n`t exist, be curtailed, or that the makeup of the U.S is a standard makeup for the Middle East on its way in becoming good, or at least docile, I'll say this: grow uto terms with the differences within myself by taking a trip to Saudi Arabia, live a day in a life as Bouazizi only to realize that these differences should n`t exist, be curtailed, or that the makeup of the U.S is a standard makeup for the Middle East on its way in becoming good, or at least docile, I'll say this: grow uto Saudi Arabia, live a day in a life as Bouazizi only to realize that these differences should n`t exist, be curtailed, or that the makeup of the U.S is a standard makeup for the Middle East on its way in becoming good, or at least docile, I'll say this: grow uto realize that these differences should n`t exist, be curtailed, or that the makeup of the U.S is a standard makeup for the Middle East on its way in becoming good, or at least docile, I'll say this: grow up.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

Growing up as a Muslim, Obama learned that according to the Qur» an it is acceptable to lie, deceive and live by a double standard provided in so doing one advances Islamic goals.

To be sure, the illusory wants are wants in the sense that they do exist, but they are judged as not having measured up to whatever standard the speaker has in minTo be sure, the illusory wants are wants in the sense that they do exist, but they are judged as not having measured up to whatever standard the speaker has in minto whatever standard the speaker has in mind.

Also appealing is Epstein's assertion of judgment in such matters as dress («The baseball cap marks a steep decline in elegant male attire» and «The notion of having shined shoes speaks to holding up standards, even if in a very minor way»).

I'm sure when people read that at the council of Nicea or beforehand, that wasn't seen as anything noteworthy, but if there is an absolute standard and god was completely cool, even encouraging such behavior, should we go back to the days where it was cool to offer up a woman's vir.ginity?

In those days, sinners fell into five basic categories: people who did dirty things for a living (such as pig farmers and tax collectors), people who did immoral things (such as liars and adulterers), people who did not keep the law up to the standards of the religious authorities (such as you and me), Samaritans and gentiles.

I can only hope that I have a front row seat as you explain to him that his righteousness has not measured up to your personal standards of morality and then assault Him physically.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.

These supplies are designed to meet international standards for humanitarian relief and are packaged up and ready to deploy as soon as a crisis strikes.

Would that the editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education had held Professor Conn's essay up to the rigorous standards of rationality and attention to evidence that he says he wishes to enforce against the religious colleges and universities he regards as benighted.