• They've received the same degree of training, and they've met the same standards of performance.

    NPR: Women in Combat: Rules and Reality

  • Standards of performance increase, along with an increased willingness and ability to hold each other accountable for meeting them.

    FORBES: Phases of Innovation

  • For example, people need to know what is expected of them in terms of standards of performance and behaviour.

    BBC: People on computers

  • An identity that allows them to become leaders and that begins to hold them accountable to the same standards of performance as everyone else.

    FORBES: Who Really Owns the 2012 Hispanic Vote?

  • Compared to women with no children, mothers earn less, get hired and promoted less, and get held to more exacting standards of performance.

    FORBES: Sorry, James Murdoch: You Can't Scapegoat the Kids to Excuse Professional Failings

  • Only by having strong, effective management practices in place have they been able to replicate the same standards of performance across different regions, cultures and markets.

    ECONOMIST: Maybe management theory is not hocus pocus after all

  • While Android has been gaining in popularity, the superior processing power of the Tegra 2 dual-core may set standards of performance in the mobile market and challenge leaders like Apple.

    FORBES: Nvidia Hitches Its Wagon To Android For New Growth Path In Mobile

  • And as far as teachers go, I think they work as hard as anybody, but we also want to make sure that they are having high standards of performance, especially in math and science.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Creating new standards of performance, based on how long it takes staffers to resolve a problem over the phone, Kunze in 2001 extended the California and U.K. help desks to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Their success proves, if nothing else, that Russian consumers are as shrewd and sceptical as any other country's consumers: they are not arbitrarily prejudiced against Russian manufactured goods, but they demand international standards of performance and reliability from the products they buy.

    ECONOMIST: Russian computers

  • Elevating the standards of technology and performance for the future of gaming and entertainment on the PC.

    ENGADGET: Creative reveals Sound Blaster ZxR, Zx, and Z PCI-Express sound cards, pumps up the volume

  • Like every other defense program -- and, for that matter, any other government activity -- responsible officials and their contractors must be held to the highest standards of integrity and technical performance when it comes to what is, arguably, one of the Nation's most important initiatives: the effort to defend the American people against ballistic missile attack.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • In his address, the president appealed for all states to adopt a nationally established set of performance standards centered on skills evaluations that measure students' achievement in reading and math.

    CNN: AllPolitics - E-Mail from the White House

  • These will enhance the status of teachers and reward high performance to secure the delivery of high standards.

    BBC: The Queen's speech in full

  • Giving them the time and the resources to improve, but also having high standards of expectation in terms of their performance.

    WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

  • For strategies that invest in a range of asset classes, such as bonds and commodities, investors and advisers should come up with a more-balanced benchmark, says Jonathan Boersma, executive director of Global Investment Performance Standards for the CFA Institute.

    WSJ: Advisers Discover 'Managed ETF Portfolios'

  • The result will be that not far out in the future, for all practical purposes, standards based apps may match the performance of native apps.

    FORBES: Firefox OS Turning Up Heat On Apple And Google

  • The EPA sets performance standards for specific categories of industrial sources.

    FORBES: Why You Should Care That Courts Overturn EPA's Carbon Pollution Standard

  • He sets high standards for himself and was critical of his performance in the 400m freestyle final in Beijing despite winning gold and breaking the world record.

    BBC: Golden swimmer with a will to win

  • "It is particularly pleasing that, during this period of change, GWAS has been shown as one of the best ambulance trusts in terms of clinical performance and response standards, " he said.

    BBC: South West ambulance merger approved by health secretary

  • If the EPA and the DOE have the ability and the resources to apply meaningful energy performance standards to the likes of washing machines and refrigerators, why not to trail runners and waterproof jackets?

    FORBES: The Need for a Green Index

  • The South African president said that the G8 had shown commitment towards Nepad, the development programme for Africa in which rich countries promise more aid and investment in return for efforts by African leaders to raise standards of government and monitor each other's performance.

    BBC: Mbeki urges G8 commitment

  • That minimum performance will not meet the company standards of customer focus either.

    FORBES: Why Is Great Service So Rare?

  • Our research shows that companies need a global set of cultural standards and philosophies, but must let performance plans and goals be adjusted (organizations that revisit goals quarterly show 31% higher results than companies that set goals annually, for example.).

    FORBES: The World Is Not Global, It's Local

  • One or both of those measures might have passed had McCarthy and the Air Office come clean about their agenda and acknowledged before votes were cast that the agency planned, in 2012-2013, to propose and adopt CO2 performance standards that effectively ban the construction of new coal generation.

    FORBES: EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Has A History Of Misleading Congress

  • We build our contracting and IT infrastructure to 21st century standards and give people a stake in government by fostering a culture of performance through open government and better engagement of our talented workforce.

    WHITEHOUSE: "Doing What Works" Transcript

  • "Under their new professional structure and leadership team Cricket Ireland has embarked on an exciting strategic development phase and set high performance standards for all national teams and for the development of the sport as a whole, " he said.

    BBC: Irish cricket obtains new sponsor

  • "We now need to ensure that the legacy of the funding has a long-term effect on improving standards and performance, " she said.

    BBC: Project 'yet to help' poor pupils

  • BrightScope believes it can accelerate the growth of the financial advisory industry and increase its legitimacy by creating standards around performance, experience, certifications, fees, and conduct.

    FORBES: Transparency Now

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