• People talk about expectations, people talk about your own personal standards that you have to set.

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  • That means assuming the quality of a watch fits your own personal standards, it is difficult to put a price on artistic expression or emotional desire.

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  • Ruddock was more dismissive of criticism in Thomas' book that he had not clamped down on players' personal standards, with dressing rooms left in a mess, bar bills going unpaid and half-full water bottles being discarded.

    BBC: CHOOSE A SPORT

  • The SEC should establish clear minimum standards regarding personal trading that every mutual fund money manager must meet and be more diligent in monitoring compliance with these standards during its inspections of managers.

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  • In America, for instance, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) introduced security standards for personal health data.

    ECONOMIST: Companies and information

  • In fact, the results are pretty much the same: desperation, a struggle for survival, and slipped standards in personal hygiene.

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  • The politicians were not less likely to be churchgoers (many voters, after all, attended church), but they had developed their own standards of personal morality.

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  • Melting-pot institutions like the U.S. military prefer not to dwell too much on the particulars of a soldier's culture: Much of their purpose is to substitute personal belief with common standards of behavior.

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  • Consequently, the desire for order motivated the establishment of ethical standards to encourage acceptable personal behavior, contracts to encourage legal behavior, and courts to sort things out when a final authority is required.

    FORBES: Observing The Small Business Code Of Ethics

  • We believe it does, because it gets right to the issue of integrity and personal conduct and trust and the ability to enforce standards.

    FORBES: Navy Officers Fall Prey To The Thin Digital Line Between Personal & Professional Lives

  • By allegedly placing customer funds in his personal business account, Hastings failed to observe high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade and thereby violated FINRA Rule 2010.

    FORBES: Customer Paid Interest From Nonexistent IRA

  • The aim was to raise standards by improving student motivation by promoting personal ownership of learning, offering a wide range of subjects, allowing students to decide how much time they wanted to commit to particular subjects and giving them the opportunity for some specialisation.

    BBC: Streamed classes 'demotivate'

  • The panel found there had been "a serious departure from the personal and professional conduct elements of the latest teachers' standards".

    BBC: Head teacher Fiona Bromley banned from profession

  • Supply-chain technology also will march in the direction of standards and ubiquity. (Think of personal computers.) At that point, decisive advantage will go to companies that use their supply chains to boost their rate of hit products.

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  • And I see more choice also within the school, within the classroom itself, as being the next stage as well so that we concentrate on bringing up the standards of education by giving children a range of personal small group, small class tuition.

    BBC: EDUCATION

  • The websites of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (cfp.net) and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (napfa.org), have membership directories, listing hundreds of advisers in all parts of the country, that allow users to search by name or location.

    WSJ: Borrowers Could See Higher Interest Rates

  • Years of imbalance between creative ideals and financial realities, personal problems amongst the label operators, an unwillingness to compromise our aesthetic standards, a tendency towards releasing challenging (i.e. unmarketable) artists, and the steady decline of the music industry in general, are amongst the chief reasons for our inability to continue.

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  • But the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Apil) says the increase in claims has improved healthcare standards.

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  • Also, he is a member of the influential parliamentary commission on banking standards, although his remarks to the Christians in Parliament All Party Parliamentary Group were personal, rather than representing those of the commission (I should perhaps point out that I was the token non-observant Jew on the panel that then responded to the Archbishop's reflections).

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  • He served this country with great distinction in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and as head of the CIA. By his own assessment, he did not meet the standards that he felt were necessary as the Director of CIA with respect to this personal matter that he is now dealing with, with his family and with his wife.

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  • If enacted by Congress, the bill of rights would give users a great deal more control over their personal informatoin and would hold companies accountable to enforcement authorities if they failed to live up to their privacy standards.

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  • The personal computers of 1981, including the Apple II and the IBM PC, were punks by today's standards.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Much of the cost of collecting biometric and personal data has already been shifted to the passport service, on the grounds that passports must meet tougher international standards.

    ECONOMIST: Identity cards

  • Most would say those are positive trends, although the pace of debt repayment by households is pretty sluggish and our personal debts (at close to 100% of GDP) remain substantial (and a worrying burden) by historical standards.

    BBC: UK's debts 'biggest in the world'

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