On several grounds, the court said, the looser standard must apply.

The amendment, approved by voice vote, would allow judges to apply the looser standards retroactively.

Class A is a looser standard for equipment intended only for business, industrial and commercial settings.

Upgraded last year, the plant operated under looser standards for decades.

This option would cut disability spending by 5 percent by focusing on states with the loosest standards.

Some of this contention may stem from the looser standards formerly held in the industry, although accurate records are lacking.

He added that looser legal standards could encourage frivolous suits.

It usually had a greater artistic freedom, and looser standards (not mandated by a network).

But they impose a looser standard to objects loaned for temporary exhibitions.

This would set air quality protection back decades to a time when states "raced to the bottom" to set the loosest standards.