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Cars and trucks are very significant, and we have the lowest standards in the world.
So they agreed, "Okay, what we'll do is we agree on a common set of standards, code of conduct.
And let's face it, the contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more persuasive value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.
Though their loan recipients were high-risk by ordinary standards, the default rate was extremely low.
But the dirty production, the burning of toxins, the lack of environmental standards in Asia, is actually creating so much dirty air pollution, it's coming across the ocean, and has erased our gains here in California.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others, both in our private and in our civic spaces.
We have codes and standards that tell us that the lights should be so much Lux and of great uniformity.
If we would apply these codes and standards to the Pantheon in Rome, it would never have looked like this, because this beautiful light feature that goes around there all by itself can only appear because there is also darkness in that same building.
There was no program directive, no manual to follow, no standards in gifted education in that way.
We have a situation where private companies are applying censorship standards that are often quite arbitrary and generally more narrow than the free speech constitutional standards that we have in democracies.
We're already seeing positive examples in South Africa and Kenya, and the organizations, such as the Africa Council for Accreditation and Accountability that's checking faith-based organizations and ensuring that they comply with biblical standards of stewardship.
But it turns out this is just a reminder that, although this is a lot of fun, when you interpret these graphs, you have to be very careful, and you have to adopt the base standards in the sciences.
And it was as if through the standards of my Western life, I hadn't lived up to my full potential.
And Jesse's a good crane operator, and he did okay by our standards.
For those of us that spend most of our lives on the ground, this may be counter-intuitive, but driving has potholes, cobblestones, pedestrians, other drivers and a rather long and detailed list of federal motor vehicle safety standards to contend with.
I assume you have standards.
And if we cannot demonstrate to these groups that if you move towards democracy, if you move towards taking part in civilized and normal standards among states, there are some rewards on the other side.
And I've made the sometimes hard, sometimes easy decision to not take hormones or have any surgeries to change it to make myself more masculine by society's standards.
Today, we are here to raise our standards of racial literacy, to redefine what it means to be racially literate.
PV: Elevate our standards for racial literacy.
They're called architectural standards.
But seriously, what would happen if we started to tweak those architectural standards to get what we wanted?
Of course, it's also a great liberating force that makes possible, you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.
If you really want to get a bit closer to Swedish building standards with a crappy house like this, you need to be putting external insulation on the building, as shown by this block of flats in London.
Again, gathering together farmers, gathering together stakeholders in East Africa to get standards for organic produce.
If we can get the right tools at the right time to the people who will inevitably step up and start putting their communities back together, we can create new standards in disaster recovery.
Go one step up, and you get to farmers, who throw away sometimes a third or even more of their harvest because of cosmetic standards.
And of course, our change in standards can outpace the change in behavior.
That's a process that seems to be continuing, but if it outstrips behavior by the standards of the day, things always look more barbaric than they would have been by historic standards.
Today, we look at capital punishment as evidence of how low our behavior can sink, rather than how high our standards have risen.
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