New-standard Sentence Examples

That institution at once set up a new standard of nobility, a new form of the nobility of office.

The burden of the new prophecy seems to have been a new standard of moral obligations, especially with regard to marriage, fasting and martyrdom.

By this new standard the Romans seem our contemporaries in latter-day civilization; the "Golden Age" of Greece is but of yesterday; the pyramid-builders are only relatively remote.

A "troy pound " and a new standard yard, as well as secondary standards, were constructed by direction of parliament in 1758-1760, and were deposited with the Clerk of the House of Commons.

A new standard of sumptuousness and splendour was set up in the richest stratum of society.

The terms which he finally arranged with the Government, involving an approximate addition of over io,000,000 per annum to the railway expenditure, included a standard week of 48 hours, and a standard wage for that week; for the fixing of the new standard rates of wages negotiations were to be continued.

He introduced a new standard of accuracy in the cartography of ancient Greece.

The unit of antitoxin in Ehrlich's new standard is the amount requisite to antagonize i oo times the minimum lethal dose of a particular toxin to a guinea-pig of 250 grm.

In 1980/81, I had the pleasure of painting a new standard for the exhibition budgerigar, which is still in use today.

Setting a new standard for video games, the high-speed motion of the Sonic character went beyond the limitations of the game systems of the time.

This innovation, according to Philips & Co., set a new standard in the electric razor industry by enhancing comfort and closeness of shave.

The company specializes in shoes that transcend the basics and set a new standard for casual footwear.

Today, Q-switched lasers have set a new standard for laser tattoo removal.

When Casio introduced its G-Shock watch in 1983 it created a new standard for other watches to aspire to.