Sellers may manipulate standards to mean something different than their widely understood meaning.

Setting yourself high standards does not mean you need not be realistic.

But, he said, without enough money, new standards won't mean much.

Few companies say they have the vaguest idea what the standards might mean for their operations.

Soon, he concluded, every company would follow suit, and standards would mean little.

Few companies say they have even the haziest idea what the new standards might eventually mean for their particular operations.

We need to know a lot about a President, but the standard of knowing everything will soon mean unreasonable demands at every level.

The lower standards mean that more patents are being obtained, even for trivial ideas.

New technology and higher standards mean increased costs, but the first thing to do is to look at all the relevant variables.

That "double standard" meant the Council decisions were often not taken seriously.