It's based upon my dissatisfaction with the present standard in creative music.

Historians are taught not to judge the past by present standards.

But it is still very expensive by present standards, and environmentally destructive.

But we want to keep our present standard of living, or improve on it.

By present standards here she looked about a hundred and twenty.

The fee offered was, judged by his present standards of prosperity, small.

The "present standard" in 1895 valued gold at $20.67 an ounce.

They didn't match up to our present standards of evidence, and we needed to be specific in order to puncture their claims.

Not a large settlement, but unusual by present standards; many.

This policy is serious, well considered, sensible and in accordance with all present standards of civilized relations between states.