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.