public standard

And how far can negative controls succeed in raising public standards?

I must be very naive indeed to thing that public standards should include being truthful.

And it is a well-known public standard with no ways around it.

Queen Victoria, who spent half her life in widow's weeds, set a public standard.

These determine whether health organizations are meeting public standards for quality set by government and allows regional comparisons.

Within this framework, individuals are seen as monitoring their behaviour with reference to private and public standards.

In western countries, the legal concept of "informed consent" often sets the public standards on this issue.

If dragging me into bed is supposed to be her public standard of value, she knows that she couldn't live up to it.

By today's measure, Americans in the first half of the century were sexually oppressed; the gulf between public standards and private behavior was extreme.

Even that, by public standards, was minor; it concerned the direction in which superheated gas flowed.

Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.

But unless Bill Gates can be restrained, we could lose our last chance to define public standards.

In some ways it is easiest to describe the neighborhood by how its residents deviate from the public standards of the wider community.

It is the fulfilment of the functions relating to public standards that is really required.

Public standards in the United Kingdom may refer to:

Departmental hearings, which use less stringent and less public standards than criminal trials, can be more effective, prosecutors say.

He arrives at this not through the sort of inside reporting that Kaplan purports to have done but by examining events against a simple public standard.

These guidelines are built upon existing public standards, but the guidelines themselves are private (available for a fee).

"To my knowledge, there is nothing about public standards of decency in the Constitution," Mr. Wellman said.

The court ruled that Lucky failed to collect accurate information about applicants and apply consistent and public standards to personnel decisions.

"What's special about politics is it's always measurable, you always have to measure up to a public standard," Mr. Bond said.

In the then condition of the public standards of honor he could not have been comfortable with the stigma upon him of having refused to fight.

But as public standards of viewable sexual behavior have changed, a new kind of taboo is gaining force: challenging authority and its religious version, blasphemy.

To the public standard one the yellow lilies Opposes, the other claims it for a party, So that 'tis hard to see which sins the most.

"We've lost this notion of a public standard as good," says Alex Morrow, general manager of architecture and technology at Lotus.