272 adjectives to describe standard

Lastly was reared the royal standard by the king of arms, with the shout of "Castile!

When the great German mass-peoples find this out, when they discover the little rift in the lute which now separates their real quality from the false standards of their own dominant military and commercial folk, then their true rôle in the world will begin, and a glorious rôle it will be.

The lion in the 'Change by no means came up to his ideal standard,so impossible is it for Nature, in any of her works, to come up to the standard of a child's imagination!

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Some scholars do not accept this "double standard", although we have clear texts which show that cases were evaluated on the basis of Confucian texts and not on the basis of laws.

It had not its root in genuine benevolence, or sympathy with mankind; though these qualities held their due place in my ethical standard.

It does not follow that because we are beginning to understand the normal that we are to establish one fixed absolute standard of the normal.

I do not mean women off the streets, but women who have no moral reputation to maintainwomen who do not mind letting confidential servants see that they have no regard for the conventional standards of life.

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When editors can escape the bias of contemporary thought and feeling, when their judgments are refined by distance and mellowed by the new literary standards of the intervening years,when in fact Wordsworth is as far away from his critics as Shakespeare now isit may be possible to adjust a final text.

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Who is looking to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual standards of the Church for guidance?

For this reason conformity to the Standard of Personality must be a matter of choice, which amounts to the same thing as saying that it rests with each individual to form his own conception of a standard of Personality; but which liberty, however, carries with it the inevitable result that we shall bring into manifestation the conditions corresponding to the sort of personality we accept as our normal standard.

The charm is not in the mere size of the plant, which disappoints everybody, as Niagara does, when tried by that sole standard.

The tabular standard.

At a somewhat later period the lofty moral standard exhibited in the writings of Plato operated upon me with great force.

The habit of lying is more or less common among primitive peoples, as it is among those of higher cultivation; but it is of interest to note that widely, even among them, the standard of truthfulness as a duty is recognized as the correct standard, and lying is, in theory at least, a sin.

I do not claim to have proposed an infallible standard.

This was done through the foundation of the Consumers' League of New York, now a branch of the National Consumers' League, which has done good and faithful service in bringing home to many some sense of the moral responsibility of the purchaser in maintaining oppressive industrial conditions, while, on the other hand it has persistently striven for better standards of labor legislation.

Before, therefore, I attempt to enter into the philosophical grounds which can be given for assenting to the utilitarian standard, I shall offer some illustrations of the doctrine itself; with the view of showing more clearly what it is, distinguishing it from what it is not, and disposing of such of the practical objections to it as either originate in, or are closely connected with, mistaken interpretations of its meaning.

Man, according to Scripture, is made in God's moral image and likeness, and however fallen and degraded that image may be, still the ultimate standard of right and wrong is the same in God and in man.

It revealed how completely war had upset all official standards and conventions.

Hitherto men had been more or less governed by the narrow, isolated standards of the Middle Ages, and when they differed they fell speedily to blows.

In certain branches of science we can ascertain our personal equation, the measure of difference between our own judgments and an average standard: may there not be some corresponding correction of our personal partialities in moral theorising?

The State is even the basis of men's characters, for it sets up and establishes a minimum standard of conduct.

272 adjectives to describe  standard