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And there's no reason to lower standards at home either!

If it does not then most people will experience a lower standard of living.

It is not only poor students who are being held to lower standards.

School officials say they did not lower standards to meet their goal.

The same low standards we see today have been more or less constant.

He set a new low standard for owners, and that's saying a lot.

The country would have to adopt a lower standard of living.

"If my mother had lower standards, and let me do things myself, I might have learned how," the daughter said.

Today, the Bush administration has tolerated a much lower standard.

Additional support is provided for children with a low standard of English.

Why should they be subject to a lower standard of proof?

They often receive a far lower standard of care than patients in this country.

If he stays we might get the budget through but we'll have set a new, low standard.

In that sense, it can be characterized as a lower standard.

These students realize they're the first generation that will have a lower standard of living than their parents.

Still, these institutions seem exceptionally bad even by China's low standards.

Such a low standard is all the law requires, the committee concludes.

They are fighting against their comparatively low standard of living.

Therefore they can only run at the lower standard speed limits.

He warned voters that children could have a lower standard of living than their parents.

A low standard deviation means that most of the numbers are very close to the average.

The main reason given for the rating was poor management and a low standard of teaching.

"He set a pretty low standard for what they had to do to get past a motion to dismiss."

The implication is that the candidates' teachers set very low standards.

Why are we inflicting these lower standards upon our children?

Anything else - worst standards and highest prices in Europe.

The apartments had the worst standard in the entire country, with a large number without a toilet in the apartment.

The bank's openness and the transparency of its administration represent the worst standards in the EU.

He has vowed not to bequeath future generations of workers an inferior contract and worse standard of living.

Not a bad standard for genuine "haute cuisine."

This was baffling to encounter in person, inspiriting to observe in practice, but certainly not the worst standard a young critic could find.

After having the guidelines described to him, Mr. Hacker, the consumer advocate, said the 85 percent stipulation "is not a bad standard" and described it as "a step forward."

Oh and the local bank manager of course bewailing how bad standards are currently but hailing how great they are once the schools account is in the black with a high profit for himself........

I also have the impression that we are using a kind of blackmail on ourselves by saying that, if we take our fleets from West Africa, other fleets may take our place and they will have even worse standards than those used at present.

"We have a constant succession of inexperienced teachers in the junior department," he declared, and attributed the bad standard of education of the deaf to this factor and the prevailing negative attitude to signing, which he believed to be "a good servant, but a bad master."

"Those were not bad standards at the time," said John L. Hall, a scientist at the Institute of Standards and Technology and a winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, who helped refine the definition of the meter two decades ago.

I don't think this WOULD result in a worse standard of MPs, I think you would get people coming in who were connected to the area they represented and who wanted to make a difference for everybody, not just make a difference to their bank balance.

Almost 80 per cent of Tory voters say they are unlikely to change parties if the NHS plans go ahead, but 70 per cent believe the proposals are likely to lead to privatisation of the NHS, with 62 per cent seeing the changes leading to worse standards of care and treatment.