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Example sentences for "higher standard"

  • But the fact remains that they have more wants satisfied than before, that they realize a higher standard of life, and that is the mark, and indeed the substance, of a more diffused comfort and civilization.

  • That rude assembly is the only free institution in Russia.

  • But though private property is certainly founded on selfishness, there are so many examples of it presented before us in the New Testament without condemnation, that Todt shrinks from pronouncing it to be an unchristian institution.

  • We need better schools and a higher standard of education for the masses.

  • Under this new regime we witness the foreshadowing of a higher sense of civilization, a higher standard of morals, a broader field of culture and a purer realm of thought.

  • It is generally conceded, I think, that women have a higher standard of morality and right living than men.

  • Its founders sought to create a social tie between the families of Masons, but it early reached a higher standard of usefulness.

  • The test in Colorado is still too new to expect a unanimous verdict, yet all fair-minded observers are justified in predicting a higher standard of morals and of political life as a result of woman suffrage.

  • An Objection based on a Higher Standard of Living.

  • It was small comfort to know that, under the law of population, wages might conceivably become higher and remain so because of a higher standard of living, provided the higher standard was never attained.

  • In some way workers might insist upon a higher standard of living after each one of their periodical gains.

  • This had the effect of establishing, not only a higher standard, but a rising standard, and as one generation succeeded another it became habituated to a better mode of living than had been possible before.

  • This again is referable to the suburban movement and a higher standard of requirements.

  • The chief object is to safeguard the future, prevent the repetition of past defects and encourage a higher standard of housing.

  • It means that a higher standard of watermanship has to be attained, in order to do justice to the style of craft rowed in, according as the ship carries more or fewer performers.

  • So that half-a-dozen oarsmen or scullers of equal class, if they will thus mutually assist each other, can attain between them a higher standard than if each had rowed like a hermit.

  • The loss of working time sustained by women could probably be reduced considerably by more attention to physical training and exercise and by a higher standard of diet.

  • This has been rendered possible by acquired skill and improved physique ensuing on a higher standard of living.

  • No matter from where the groups come, they will present an economic problem to those who, in a measure at least, have risen to a higher standard of living.

  • I always understood that you prided yourself on acting up to a higher standard of honorable dealing than other men.

  • Afterwards they will seek wives according to a higher standard than if they had never known you.

  • It is true that I have moulded my life according to a higher standard of honor than ordinary men; and it is also true that that standard is never higher, never more fastidiously acted up to, than where a woman is concerned.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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