Let him set up and stick to a high standard of Christian morality and see what comes of it, in business, say, or in social life.
The belief of Plato in the immortality of the soul naturally led him to establish a high standard of moral excellence, and, like his great teacher, he constantly inculcates temperance, justice, and purity of life.
As a critic he demanded creative imagination from all who would claim the title of poet, and spared neither friends nor foes in his efforts to maintain a high standard of literary excellence.
Later, as a critic, he aided the development of literature in America by erecting a high standard of judgment and by his just estimation of the rights and duties of literary men.
Every man likes his business to be well thought of, and most businesses have organized for the promotion of a high standard of ethics as well as for the development of more efficient methods.
Clear, prompt, and self-confident, judging everything by a high standardof honour and public spirit, he distributed censure with no regard either to the official position or to the party affiliations of politicians.
Christ's is one of the smaller colleges, but has almost always had men of distinction among its fellows, and has maintained a high standard of teaching.
Literary criticism did not maintain a high standard, nor duly distinguish thorough from flashy or superficial performances.
He who has a high standard of living and thinking will certainly do better than he who has none at all.
Mechanical aids, such as pledges, may be of service to some, but the great thing is to set up a high standard of thinking and acting, and endeavour to strengthen and purify the principles as well as to reform the habits.
It is well to have a high standard of life, even though we may not be able altogether to realize it.
The point of greatest laxity in their moral habits--the want of a high standard of chastity--was not one which affected their camp life to any great extent, and it therefore came less under my observation.
When men, working together, successfully attain to a high standard of orderliness, deportment and response, each to the other, they develop the cohesive strength which will carry them through any great crisis.
That would be as radically false as to believe that training, when properly conducted, can make all men alike and can infuse all ranks with the desire for a high standard.
We know that we have been in the society of a gentleman who had a high standard of morality and honor.
He was noted for his excellent judicial appointments, and he had undoubtedly a high standard of official conduct which he endeavored to live up to.
And on that score, we will be held to a high standard, indeed.
Moreover, it is gradually being realized that a high standard is desirable in selecting a nurse for children.
Affection for wife and children is also the greatest motive to social ambition and personal self-respect--that is, to what is technically called a "high standard of living.
But a high standard of living restrains population; that is, if we hold up to the higher standard of men, we must have fewer of them.
Morality, supposed to be founded in selfishness; test of, the general welfare of the community; gradual rise of; influence of a high standard of.
In actual experience the preparation of a high standard and a high percentage of smoked sheet is attended with considerable difficulty in those cases where the factory processes have been ultra-centralised.
Such alteration is ignored by the superintendents as long as the quality of the tapper's work is maintained at a high standard.
He organized guilds among his workmen, and secured the adoption of regulations which served to maintain a high standard, and permitted none but perfect products to be placed upon the market.
The courts of justice have reached a high standard; the lower courts are administered almost exclusively by natives; the higher courts by English and natives together.
The government has established a college of high standard in a handsome gothic building, which many consider the best in India.
Wherever rather late marriage is the rule with men--that is, wherever there is a high standard of comfort--the disproportion is correspondingly great.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high standard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
