How To Use Double standard In A Sentence

  • He said: ‘I think it is underhanded and duplicitous and it is double standards.’
  • He is just another politician with seemingly double standards and a selective memory. Times, Sunday Times
  • After all, a glaring double standard has been a hallmark of our nation's drug policy for decades.
  • Double standard, did Helicopter Ben pose in Cosmo? Matthew Yglesias » Nominations Calvinball
  • Step 2 was to accuse the administration of observing a double standard on leaks, giving reporters national security information when the information benefits them and vilifying leakers when it doesn't.
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  • It's a rare instance of the double standards around women and appearance benefiting us, not them. Times, Sunday Times
  • So I'll let you decide whether this smells of hypocrisy and double standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • On its website, however, the cultural cringe is evident and double standards obtain. Double Standards
  • This double standard is what enables and entices women to shed their clothes.
  • We don't ask them to turn up to work with their shirts off or in tight trousers for the women, so this represents double standard. The Sun
  • But the cure for double standards is not to compound them by sacrificing yet another innocent to ideological correctness.
  • The idea that they can even say those words without burning up at the shame of their own dishonour and double standards staggers me.
  • He is just another politician with seemingly double standards and a selective memory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps mindful of the demonstrable double standard, however, this time a different reason was given for deleting the post.
  • Considering the number of non-humans this series has messily got through, some might call that double standards. Tonight's TV highlights: The Culture Show | Human Planet | Marchlands | Mad Dogs | Skins | How To Make It In America
  • Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards.
  • It is indeed awkward to let out the truth about double standards, although it is remarkable that administrators think that students will not make invidious comparisons if the statistics are kept under wraps.
  • For me i would be ok for south kosovo to be independet but when i see that same right is not given to serbs who have their republic in bosnia which is 95 % serbs or for north kosovo where is the same situation then whow you call it then double standards. A Photographer’s Journal: Kosovo, Year 1 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Its choice of interviewees is often unbalanced, it employs double standards in treating one side far more roughly than the other, and much of its questioning rests on a series of highly partisan assumptions.
  • The Government is being accused of double standards in the way it is so tough on law and order yet allows its own MPs to escape prosecution for fraud.
  • It is the definition of double standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • It countermands any specious defences of appropriation when applied to marginal culture that pivot on the double standard, allowing us to point to the precise effects of misrepresentation and discrimination that are resultant from the appropriation, and allows us to challenge the appropriation on a level of legtimacy that is not hamstrung by an implicit privileging. More on Cultural Appropriation
  • Double standards and displacement of blame are persistent face-saving strategies.
  • Society's double standards tend to help female murderers in the courtroom; in the Deep South, where most of America's executions take place, there is almost a chivalry towards women.
  • Promoted to Headline (H2) on 3/30/09: The U.S. has 'no moral standing' to criticize Iran: Zunes yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The U.S. has \'no moral standing\' to criticize Iran: Zunes '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: An interview with the Middle East analyst and expert, Prof. Stephen Zunes, on the U.S. double standards against Iran\'s nuclear dossier, Palestinians\ 'plight and regional conflicts.' The U.S. has 'no moral standing' to criticize Iran: Zunes
  • Boris, who I love dearly, is furious about the rampant double standards of those dreadful Tabloid Newspapers. Archive 2007-02-18
  • The Government is being accused of double standards in the way it is so tough on law and order yet allows its own MPs to escape prosecution for fraud.
  • The double standards and hypocrisy surrounding this particular issue are incredible.
  • We also become aware of our double standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cro-Magnon cult culture defense mechanism delusion demography developmental psychology double standard of sexual behavior dowry ectomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph ego egocentric egomania egotism empathy empty nest encounter group 17. Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
  • Society has a double standard when it comes to teen sex: it is seen as natural for boys but forbidden for girls.
  • It stinks of humbug, hypocrisy and double standards. The Sun
  • With such a high media profile, it's remarkable how little attention is paid to Will's double standards, ethical lapses and misstatements.
  • The whole situation smacks of a double standard.
  • I realize Col. Cooper fought in Guadalcanal with bolt action Springfields, and tends to be partial towards bolt guns even for defense use, but why the double standard? Taps for Colonel Cooper
  • She also argued that descriptions of her as "stroppy" reflected a double standard in the treatment of male and female politicians. New Statesman
  • Sometimes twoness refers to the double standard for men and women.
  • Does anyone understand what this b*tch is saying in her lousy attempt to explain away a double standard? Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’
  • He is not the ideal spokesman to challenge a double standard that celebrates older fathers as randy old goats, but shudders at older mothers as unnatural crones.
  • His “double standard” bologna is just crap and proves how stupid he is!! Adam Lambert on his AMA vocals ('kind of a mess'), Elisabeth Hasselbeck ('we're very different'), and CBS' subtle message ('homosexuality is dangerous') | EW.com
  • And funniest of all, Bill anathematizes the double standards of his critics!
  • It is the definition of double standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • It stinks of humbug, hypocrisy and double standards. The Sun
  • It stinks of humbug, hypocrisy and double standards. The Sun
  • We also become aware of our double standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Columnist Max Castro writes in today's Miami Herald about one double standard that is of a type that "infuriates" other nations:On Tuesday, the United States gave its blessing to a program -- known in bureaucratic doublespeak as the ''Airbridge Denial Program'' -- that allows Colombian fighter pilots to shoot down unarmed civilian aircraft suspected of carrying drugs. Archive 2003-08-01
  • Patricia Schroeder of Colorado remains a cautionary symbol of the unfair double standard in the let-your-emotions-all-hang-out department.
  • The army has been accused of double standards on a prickly issue: whether soldiers should be allowed to grow beards. Times, Sunday Times
  • These so-called "conservatives" hypocritically point to others 'mistakes and do the same thing themselves – Republican double standard. A third 'C Street' Republican embroiled in sex scandal
  • Another typical state-controlled media double standard ... conserve 56 Jeb Bush: 'I don't know' if Obama is a socialist
  • The persistent application of double standards can bring about undesirable results.
  • The blatancy of the legal double standard is not only frustrating -- it's infuriating. The Great Viagra Emergency
  • Little wonder there is unrest in the country, with such double standards in public life. The Sun
  • He is just another politician with seemingly double standards and a selective memory. Times, Sunday Times
  • The latest bleat seems to be: those Democrats, that Jesse Jackson, they have unclean hands and double standards.
  • Promoted to Headline (H2) on 3/30/09: The U.S. has 'no moral standing' to criticize Iran: Zunes yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The U.S. has \'no moral standing\' to criticize Iran: Zunes '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: An interview with the Middle East analyst and expert, Prof. Stephen Zunes, on the U.S. double standards against Iran\'s nuclear dossier, Palestinians\ 'plight and regional conflicts.' The U.S. has 'no moral standing' to criticize Iran: Zunes
  • Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards.
  • Of course the double standard is really unfair, but I don't think it's particularly cool for people to sleep around just to score, when there's no real lasting attachment.
  • Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards.
  • The double standard of morality relied upon this separation between the public and the private.
  • Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards.
  • By the book's end, readers will find themselves as deeply entwined in the characters 'fates as Nunn is herself, and left to ruminate over a number of weighty debates as the tale weaves in double standards, double lives, emotional betrayal, murder, corruption and sexual deviance. A Beautiful Place to Die: Summary and book reviews of A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn.
  • The double standard may be disputed by a few of these individuals, but not the preeminence of physical appeal.
  • Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards.
  • This is a double standard which fails to interpret fairly an important aspect of male-female differences.
  • He's got a double standard: it's all right for him to have affairs but not for her.
  • While applying creditor-oriented rules against Third World countries and other debtors, the IMF pursues a double standard with regard to the United States. SUPER-IMPERIALISM: Shameful Legacy Of Liberal Democrats
  • This double standard, this sheer violation of humane principles must be stopped.
  • And that's the kind of smugly liberal double standard that will contribute to the election of McCain/Palin. Palinsanity.
  • It's a rare instance of the double standards around women and appearance benefiting us, not them. Times, Sunday Times
  • The whole affair has typified the double standards that are a hallmark of New Labour.
  • We found qualitative studies that focused directly on double standards through our computerized database searches.
  • We also become aware of our double standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • With blatant double standards such as this, the West's claim of taking a moral and ethical stand is vacuous.
  • The Government is being accused of double standards in the way it is so tough on law and order yet allows its own MPs to escape prosecution for fraud.
  • Double standards rule, even in counterculture, where they are supposedly above that, which makes the whole shebang all the more criminal.
  • The army has been accused of double standards on a prickly issue : whether soldiers should be allowed to grow beards. Times, Sunday Times
  • All of this serves to illustrate an extraordinary double standard that exists at the heart of public life.
  • The West must discard its hauteur, its double standards, its superiority complex and its cultural zeal.
  • The Government is being accused of double standards in the way it is so tough on law and order yet allows its own MPs to escape prosecution for fraud.
  • It would be another form of biopiracy and double standards.
  • We adopt a double standard: we subject religious doctrines to rigorous scrutiny that we would not dream of imposing on the deliverances of science and common sense.
  • This dangerous double standard makes a sham and a mockery of the justice system.
  • There are double standards in the way footballers and other sportsmen are perceived and portrayed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Iran's Foreign Ministry said the hands of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran "are stained with the blood of thousands of Iranian and non-Iranian people" and the EU decision demonstrated what it called the bloc's "double standards" in dealing with terrorism. Pat Dollard | Young Americans
  • By Victorian double standards, virtue in a man implied courage, but in a woman sexual purity.
  • No conflict can really be resolved as long as these double standards prevail.
  • The way society views the whole drug scene is riddled with hypocrisy and double standards.
  • This hypocritical double standard becomes abundantly clear when we hear frequent faux cries of concern about the safety of supplements and nutritionals while certain pharmaceuticals that are documented to have taken many lives remain on the medical market. Larry Malerba, D.O. : How Today's Medical Apartheid Is Sinking the Health Care System
  • The army has been accused of double standards on a prickly issue: whether soldiers should be allowed to grow beards. Times, Sunday Times
  • If most people portray their sexual behavior as conforming to a double standard, then behavior inconsistent with this double standard will appear deviant.
  • There are even double standards in incriminating evidence.) Forgive and Forget
  • Conversely, Chinese communists have seized on the idea of Lincoln as the great foe of rebellion and secession, using his name to denounce Taiwanese and Tibetan separatism and what they see as American double standards. The Surprising Global Reach of Lincoln
  • One who thinks or says otherwise indulges in the game of double standards.
  • There is an acknowledged double standard in how we view a prolific genre writer and a fruitful literary author.
  • He's got a double standard: it's all right for him to have affairs but not for her.
  • Is utamu the biggest ever crime committed by a Tanzanian? watu wa JF kwa double standards wanashabikia zeutamu kukamatwa na wakati watu wana loot nchi yetu wanatembea huru wangeshirikiana na interpool kuhakikisha hela zilizokuwa duabi, jerzey na kwinginepo zinarudi TZ ingekuwa ni jambo la maana kulikoni zeutamu […] Global Voices in English » Tanzania: Blogger arrested for publishing manipulated images of the president
  • The fracas between Harvard's new president and its top Afro-American studies profs highlights black academia's fixation on victimhood and double standards.
  • The idea that they can even say those words without burning up at the shame of their own dishonour and double standards staggers me.
  • At worst it means using warped double standards, what Ferdinand Mount has called the asymmetry of indulgence between tyrannies of left and right. Big Brother with a High Moral Sense
  • We also become aware of our double standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Confirmatoin bias is a psychological double standard which is displayed when we tend to seek support for what we already believe, rather than to seek out information that might undermine our beliefs. Waldo Jaquith - Webb on the Colbert Report.
  • He was fond of buttonholing American diplomats to lecture them about their double standard. Fallout
  • I lived in Australian ashrams and found them to be full of power-crazed micro-manager housemothers and housefathers who used double standards in how they applied the rules to different ashram residents.
  • This is not justice or fair criticism - it is hypocrisy and double standard.
  • Double Standard" -- the name itself a critics 'bull's-eye -- doesn't show Hopper to best advantage, falling short of a presentation that would offset the caviling. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Star Qualities
  • The Government is being accused of double standards in the way it is so tough on law and order yet allows its own MPs to escape prosecution for fraud.
  • He said: 'This exposes some deplorable double standards. The Sun
  • Awareness of double standards in the adult population causes teenagers to be evasive in their commitments.
  • One aspect of these changes was the weakening of the orthodox heterosexual double standard.
  • Are there double standards, e.g., one set of stated rules yet unstated exceptions for certain people?

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