Thanks largely to tourism, present-day standards of living have risen to the average Spanish levels.

"It's when a historian sees events in the past through the prism of present-day standards," the lawyer-historian tells me.

It failed to meet present-day standards of competition?

But by present-day standards of comfort, maneuverability and hygiene, the junihitoe is bizarre.

By present-day standards, such correspondence would be considered improper ex parte contact with a court.

Print runs for early Bibles were relatively short by present-day standards; typically perhaps 1000 to 2500 copies.

Reaction, on the other hand, is an amorphous phenomenon, and those who promote it are, by present-day standards, unsavory.

Both images are beautiful and, by present-day standards, complete; their comparison measures the idea of finish in ways both great and small.

The old scholarship was based on becoming a "connoisseur" - judging an object by present-day universal standards of quality.

But slightly more than 30 minutes a week of such calisthenics burns up only 300 calories, far short of the present-day standard.