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a level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group
they enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country
the lower the standard of living the easier it is to introduce an autocratic production system
How To Use living standards In A Sentence
- The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
- Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
- Already low living standards have been worsened by stringent economic reforms.
- The European Union has always been sold as an integration in which living standards would be leveled up, not down.
- The city's original good intention was to improve local living standards by pulling down the city's old quarters and setting up new ones.
- These figures clearly highlight the difference in world living standards.
- Cheaper housing would vastly improve the living standards of ordinary people.
- Our high living standards cause our present population to consume 25 percent of the world's oil.
- The overall trend in peasant living standards during the period is hotly disputed.
- InfoDev enables the poorest countries to "leapfrog" from no technology to innovative technology in a way that offers "real possibilities for lifting living standards" and creating jobs, Bond told a news conference after a meeting of donors. ANC Daily News Briefing
