standard of perfection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstandardandperfection
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standard
adjective
uk/ˈstæn.dəd/us/ˈstæn.dɚd/
usual rather than special, especially when thought of as being correct ...
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perfection
noun[U]
uk/pəˈfek.ʃən/us/pɚˈfek.ʃən/
the state of being complete and correct in ...
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(Definition ofstandardandperfectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Astandardofperfectionis unrealistic, however, if only because both estimated and actual performance scores are inevitably affected by random error components.
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To judge the real character as "bad" by an impossiblestandardofperfection, however, is to impose criminal liability without fault (and to turn every judge into a hypocrite).
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From anystandardofperfection, or anything approaching perfection, self-government must always seem premature.
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They would not apply astandardofperfection, because, unfortunately, perfection cannot be attained in the manufacture of any goods.
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He said, first of all, that nationalisation would never work because no one had reached thestandardofperfectionwhere he spent other people's money more carefully than his own.
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I appreciate that it will always be possible in the case of any scheme to give individual instances in which its working has fallen short of thestandardofperfection.
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There they wrote the firststandardofperfectionfor the breed.
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We are all aware that in matters of this kind there can be no absolute certainty and no abstract standards of perfection.
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While we all want standards of perfection, we are dealing with a world on the river, as the effluents are discharged, where variation is inevitable.
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The fact that it does not always reach those standards is not a great criticism—because in which walks of life are standards of perfection reached?
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To aim for absolute standards of perfection, which would be desirable if they were possible, is not realistic.
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We cannot look for standards of perfection.
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