Collocations withstandard
These are words often used in combination withstandard.
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absolute standard
There were no losing groups by absolute standard.
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academic standard
Overall, the book is of a very high academic standard, as one would anticipate from this series.
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acceptable standard
What is clear is that, from a legal perspective, there is only one acceptable standard and that is the reasonable standard.
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accepted standard
Any graded produce that did not meet the accepted standard was rejected.
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accreditation standards
Medical schools and residency training programs must meet national accreditation standards.
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admission standards
That does not mean changed admission standards, but the removal of deterrent barriers.
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aesthetic standards
They are instead the negative aesthetic standards of shaping familiar sounds to conform to a particular series of commercial tasks.
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applicable standards
As well as generally applicable standards, the codes of practice also set minimum standards to meet the specific requirements of individual species.
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appropriate standard
For a long time, it has been widely assumed that the best interest of the child is the appropriate standard.
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arbitrary standard
This assumption, however, may be an arbitrary standard since the requirements for a motion-detection system depend on the task that is to be solved.
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basic standard
There has to be some basic standard of decency.
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certification standard
Buyers may desire to have one certification standard met in one year, but change the requirements the next.
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common standard
Incommensurability, put simply, means that two options cannot be measured in terms of a common standard.
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consistent standard
What, then, might provide a consistent standard against which to judge the extent of differences when they are observed?
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contemporary standard
Since many passengers were expected, a great number of four-axled passenger coaches were bought, which were comparable in comfort and accoutrements with contemporary standard-gauge coaches.
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content standard
The government's definition of a content standard was that it described 'what students know and are able to do'.
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core standards
Although the legal standards vary from state to state, expert clinicians agree that there are four core standards that are necessary for decisional capacity.
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current standard
But, as this particular notion of sustainable development is concerned only with the current standard of living, it is not easy to defend.
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decent standard
On each of these dimensions there were certain tasks which were important for older people in being able to maintain a decent standard of living.
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declining standard
Another line can be best described as giving a declining standard of service for an increase in real fares.
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developing standard
Local grammarians are best placed to describe the developing standard varieties in their own country.
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editorial standards
The editorial standards are high.
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educational standard
Moreover, they have a higher educational standard than the other groups.
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environmental standard
The ideal of an optimal environmental standard does not mean zero pollution.
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established standard
In various languages, established standard agreement principles state that noun modifiers must agree in number, gender and possibly case with the head noun they modify.
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ethical standard
To abandon principle and to accept expediency does not raise the moral or ethical standard.
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exacting standard
By that quite exacting standard, the problem of preemptive action is certainly an important one.
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existing standard
Messages can have any form, adhering to some existing standard or being defined ad-hoc for the application.
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federal standard
For such a doctrine requires the application of the federal standard and thereby precludes the sort of reasoning process that attempts to calculate the comparative weights of the two standards.
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fuel standard
The need for an open fuel standard could not be any clearer as we have seen the rising price of oil in recent years.
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high standard
The papers here are of a consistently high standard.
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historical standard
By any historical standard this will be seen to have been one of the most remarkable and logistic and military achievements of recent times.
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improved standard
The chief constable intends to maintain this improved standard.
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improving standard
That in turn will militate against the steadily improving standard of living conditions in the countryside.
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industry standard
The unified modelling language has become the industry standard modelling technique and the accompanying unified process is rapidly gaining acceptance.
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international standard
This "improvement" could only take place towards the international standard.
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journalistic standards
I am not saying that that body has not done important work in examining errors of taste and in helping to uphold journalistic standards.
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legal standard
On this view, there is no special legal standard or value.
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lesser standard
A customer may wish a lesser standard of service and to pay less for it.
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low standard
The low standard deviations of importance weights (using the interval ranking procedure) provided some support for this assumption.
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lowered standard
There will also be increases in the allowances for constant attendance, for unemployability and for lowered standard of occupation.
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minimal standard
The one study (7) that attempted to estimate its cost-effectiveness did not meet the minimal standard for the economic evaluation of medical technologies.
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minimum standard
Obviously, all else being equal, a higher minimum standard is socially preferred.
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modest standard
As teachers and nurses, the spouses continued to earn low salaries, far below a modest standard.
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moral standard
If social institutions fail by the external moral standards of justice, they must be revised even if they excel by any other external moral standard.
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national standard
A world standard is not however simply one or more national standard writ large.
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normative standard
In other words, the end provides the normative standard for its being a good instance of its kind.
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objective standard
Utilitarians identify an objective standard for calculating outcomes and employ that standard in policy decision.
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organic standard
A single national organic standard was thought to increase both domestic and foreign buyers' confidence, and therefore promote increased organic export sales.
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pollution standards
In many cases pollution standards involve a social as well as a scientific judgment.
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professional standard
Is it necessary that there be unanimous agreement in order to establish a professional standard of practice?
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proposed standard
Proposed standard protocol for sampling small mammal communities.
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regulatory standard
This kind of economic interests is only one side of the coin in regulatory standard-setting processes, however.
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renewable portfolio standard
Nuclear power should not be eligible for inclusion in a renewable portfolio standard.
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revised standard
Revised standard soil colour charts.
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rigid standard
Moreover, the various reasons for relaxing this rigid standard then become the heart of the matter. 10.
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rigorous standard
In recent years, a more rigorous standard has been required for the identification of typical terrestrial biomarkers.
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rising standard
Previous examinations of youthful consumption have not satisfactorily explained the reasons for this, implying that it was one effect of a rising standard of living.
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scientific standard
The trade-off is that this also leaves researchers with no uniform scientific standard at all, which is the essential self-correcting engine of scientific activity.
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societal standard
If parents deviate significantly from an ill-defined basic societal standard in any of these areas, the state steps in to protect the child.
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standard assessment
The guide lists the standard assessment tools that may be useful in mental health services, as well as physical assessment and key skills needed.
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standard code
Certainly, as a minimum requirement, a standard code should be recommended to the guilds throughout the country.
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standard criteria
These are standard criteria in the political science literature.
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standard curriculum
Modules are synchronized with appropriate classroom activities of the standard curriculum.
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standard grade
Fixed growers' prices are prescribed for maincrop carrots, and growers are assured a market far all standard grade carrots they produce.
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standard guidelines
Institutional research boards often have difficulty judging whether the qualitative studies they review are safe and ethical, in part because there are no standard guidelines for making these decisions.
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standard norm
Dhamra port is to be developed as a most modern all weather, deep-water port, capable of handling all modern shipping efficiently and cost effectively on world standard norms.
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standard of accountability
He said there was no complaint about the standard of accountability hitherto.
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standard of achievement
He described it as "a common standard of achievement" which all should strive to attain and that is what we are seeking to do.
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standard of beauty
Bond girls conform to a fairly well-defined standard of beauty.
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standard of behaviour
I do not support an experiment that has not even improved the general standard of behaviour.
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standard of care
If medical professionals acknowledge and accept the fact that mistakes occur, the standard of care in medicine can change.
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standard of conduct
Alternatively, a right to a reasonable standard of conduct has the form of a conclusive right though it is not fully specified.
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standard of decency
Is it because it is a standard of decency and comfort, or for what other reason are you asking for if?
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standard of education
A school might suffer considerably, as might the standard of education for the remaining pupils.
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standard of efficiency
These surveys defined (and continue to define) tanks as physical systems and specified for each an engineering 'standard of efficiency'.
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standard of enforcement
It is also to the interest of business and consumer alike that the standard of enforcement should be uniform over wide areas.
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standard of ethics
That is the difference between the standard of ethics of the advertiser and the standard of ethics of the newspaper.
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standard of excellence
Isn't a high standard of excellence a tautology?
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standard of fairness
His standard of fairness is to increase the hours, accompanying it with a reduction in wages.
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standard of integrity
A high standard of integrity is required from all architects.
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standard of labour
There was a mass attack upon the standard of labour at that time.
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standard of literacy
Standards of literacy are generally rising, in the developed countries, so that it is nowadays much more difficult for 'illiterate' or 'semiliterate' people to achieve an acceptable standard of literacy.
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standard of morality
The ultimate standard of morality is the general good, understood as some impartial positive function of the good of all individuals.
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standard of perfection
A standard of perfection is unrealistic, however, if only because both estimated and actual performance scores are inevitably affected by random error components.
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standard of proof
One obvious inspiration for this approach is found in the civil-law standard of proof.
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standard of purity
The marks have been the guarantee of authenticity, an absolute standard of purity for the buyer.
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standard of reasonableness
In all, he insists that an objective standard of reasonableness, based on a principled balance of the relevant interests reflective of equality and reciprocity, should be applied.
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standard of regulation
I believe that the appointment of a commission will lead to a higher consistency and standard of regulation.
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standard of review
This is clearly sufficient to satisfy the relevant standard of review if there is no fundamen79.
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standard of teaching
How would you rate the standard of teaching?
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standard requirement
This is, of course, a standard requirement for any transformation in a non-strict functional language.
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standard technology
The compilation story for multi-ret function calls has no exotic elements or heavy costs; standard technology works well.
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strict standard
Lifestyle as a strict standard therefore retained transparent problems, with the variegated effects of the 'civilizing ' mission still posing potential contradictions.
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stringent standard
He then considers a somewhat less stringent standard.
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technological standard
The international commercial and technological standard, used in the administration of large multinational organisations.
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testing standards
Our long-term goal is to harmonize testing standards at levels which guarantee safety, and this amendment is incompatible with that objective.
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tough standards
It sets emissions standards for both engines and fuels, with increasingly tough standards being brought in from 2000.
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uniform standard
Such a regulation sets a uniform standard for all farmers no matter what their present cultivation size is.
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universal standard
The trouble is that the premise of double time being a universal standard simply does not hold true.
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vehicle standard
No uniform or minimum vehicle standard is required in the clause, which is appalling given that these cars will travel about 100,000 miles a year.
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voluntary standard
In my view, there is clearly a problem about a voluntary standard.
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wage standard
It employs the device of encouraging collective bargaining and trade association agreements (the latter subject to public approval), and makes wages thus arrived at prima facie the fair wage standard.
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western standards
With these developments, the state evolved into the major financer and provider of social programmes, even though the total expenditure on these programmes was still low by western standards.
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