normy Anglais:

He didn't meet the standards.

Living standards should be higher.

Statistics indicate that our living standards have risen.

Every citizen has the right to health and to a life that meets the minimum cultural standards.

When children are ordered to do a certain thing by such adult standards, they frequently refuse to follow the instructions for no other reason than that they have been told to do so.

Great figures don't meet high standards, but rather make their own.

However, other aspects have already surpassed the standards of many Western countries.

Kimura is a Tokyo university graduate who became a taxi driver. According to some people's standards, he might be considered a failure, but I think it's fine as long as he likes driving.

However, as living standards gradually came to rise, more and more people began to have their own bathrooms at home.

If you need to use the services of a company, you may be interested to know what standards they work towards before choosing to work with them.

Her standards for men are impossibly high, thanks to a girlhood rich in Disney, Cosmopolitan, and private school.

The reformed Labour Standards Act will be in force from Jan 1st 2004.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Argument continues about the "White collar exemption" that exempts specific white collar workers from the "8 hours in 1 day, 40 hours a week," working hours fixed by the Labour Standards Act.

The world's educational standards disappoint me.

Accepting the other's norms is submitting to the other's power.