These standards impose limits upon the Elysian fields of poetry; poetry must be confined to the common experience of average men.

A supposedly neutral standard had in fact imposed an unfair burden - a "disparate impact," in the judge's words - on black student athletes.

'We must do more than simply continue to meet the stringent safety and environmental standards imposed by statute.'

For example, the evaluative standard that the rhetorician utilizes will undoubtedly be gleaned from other works of rhetoric and, thus, impose a certain category.

Any standard for recruiting foreign agents must impose zero tolerance for misconduct except in the most vital cases.

Many standards impose limits on the "Equivalent NaO" content of cement.

"Evolving standards of societal decency have imposed a correspondingly high requirement of reliability on the determination that death is the appropriate penalty in a particular case."

Moral standards imposed a further and more subtle restriction on women.

This standard also imposes a responsibility upon each auditor within the audit organization to observe GAGAS.

The Bush administration had considered delaying the rules to consider objections from the health care industry, which said the standards would impose costly administrative burdens.