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Example sentences for "double standard"

  • At the same time the publicity given this case served to educate women on a subject heretofore taboo, showing them that poverty and a double standard of morals made victims of young women like Hester Vaughn.

  • In fact, Victoria Woodhull provided Susan and her associates with a spectacular opportunity to prove the sincerity of their contention that there should not be a double standard of morals--one for men and another for women.

  • It is not a double standard, but an alternate standard.

  • On the other hand, every silver State that adopts the "double standard" strengthens the bimetallic system in the case of a cheapening of gold.

  • Are not its roots to be found in the very soil advocated as good by believers in State regulation and in a double standard of morals, and in the ignorance which they say is desirable for "our wives and daughters.

  • The purity of family life" is another fiction of fiction which never did and never can exist, while based upon a double standard of morals.

  • Unfortunately the father and brother, under our current "double standard" of morality do not judge the applicants as she would if she knew the nature of their offenses.

  • We have in our ethics not only a "double standard" in one special line, but in nearly all.

  • Partly due to a bad heredity and largely due to a false training and the existence of a double standard of morals, boys and men are more willing to sacrifice their virtue than are girls and women.

  • The plan of a double standard is still occasionally brought forward by here and there a writer or orator as a great improvement in currency.

  • Chart showing the line of prices under a double standard.

  • Some scholars do not accept this "double standard", although we have clear texts which show that cases were evaluated on the basis of Confucian texts and not on the basis of laws.

  • And there are signs that some of those who nowadays inveigh against the white man's double standard are in reality desirous of substituting, not the single standard of the Christian ideal, but the single standard of the savage.

  • Happily the early promulgators of this shameful conception of a double standard of morals for the sexes are hidden in the oblivion of the past.

  • Unchastity the Dominant Evil--Infamy of a Double Standard of Virtue 60.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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