1.   Developing countries are attracting investment not by lowering their standards, but because they are making the best of their comparative advantage.

2.   He refused to lower his standards.

3.   Lavish praise given for undemanding and second rate efforts lowers standards rather then enhances them.

4.   Suddenly interested in the achievement of poor black schoolchildren, pundits, federal officials and policy-makers unanimously condemn Ebonics for lowering standards.

5.   To lower admission standards would be, in effect, to devalue the currency in which their diploma had been issued.

6.   Amid criticism from educators who argued that the GED would lower academic standards, board members threatened to retract their votes.

7.   And she has lowered the standards of the station.

8.   Are stars lowering their standards or raising them?

9.   As a result, he said, admissions standards have been lowered, so more students require remedial education, and graduation requirements have been eased.

10.   Bessy, for one, prefers to offer fewer dancers to the Paris Opera Ballet than to lower her standards.