To avoid offending the public in general, public authorities maintain what are sometimes called "standards of decency".

(The boats had to apply to what we now call open standards).

The set of limits based on human health is called primary standards.

Another set of limits intended to prevent environmental and property damage is called secondary standards.

Consider, for instance, his practice of what we might call separate standards for separate folk.

"I think what people are responding to is what I would call high standards," she says.

At the same time, many of the pop songs we now call standards never hit the upper reaches of the charts in their day.

So Bush splits the difference, opting for what you might call local-national standards.

On top of that, we use something called sanitary and phytosanitary standards.

Most recorded jazz songs are called "standards," because virtually every jazz musician knows them.