11.   But by the exacting standards of ethnic ugliness, they would hardly shatter the mirror.

12.   Everyone who still believes that public service is a worthy calling and requires the most exacting standards of integrity and duty will mourn the passing of Elliot Richardson.

13.   He maintains exacting standards for both himself and his teammates and will blister offenders.

14.   His lifelong pursuit of exacting musical standards changed expectations for choral music.

15.   Ideally, all states should use the same tests to ensure that they all impose the same exacting standards and to facilitate state-by-state comparisons.

16.   If the food did not meet her exacting standards, this trip to the tropics would melt down faster than you can say American cheese.

17.   If the Harvard chemistry department, with its exacting standards, has been a tundra for students in the past, it appears to be thawing a bit.

18.   In this volume, Ms. Ozick presents the reader with a fistful of marvelous essays that live up to her own exacting standards of what an essay should be.

19.   In such cases, operations need to be authorized by the president, Congress must be notified and the CIA must impose the most exacting standards for their management.

20.   Institutions that ignored him, the Metropolitan Opera chief among them, were held to exacting standards.