"standard" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Nor, she said, is she hesitant to dismiss people who do not measure up to her standards.
- "Would I have deserved death if my performance did not measure up to your standards, then?"
- How unfortunate that she was so hard to please that few gentlemen could measure up to her standards.
- He terminated every subordinate that did not measure up to his standards.
- She feared being "found out" and thus not measuring up to her standards, much less God's.
- I feel as though in trying to measure up to men's standards, I've been sucked whole into their world.
- And you're sending Van away because he doesn't measure up to his standards of propriety, aren't you?
- Could I possibly measure up to his noble standards?
- We're training them to put their focus outside of themselves, to make them measure up to everybody else's standards, and that's a huge mistake.
- Maybe reaching a colony and not measuring up to modern-day officers' standards.
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