1.   Certain services, such as education, have minimum standards imposed by Parliament.

2.   Collective bargaining is a flexible instrument and can build upon the minimum standards which the law lays down.

3.   Congress ought to establish minimum standards for licensing of handgun owners and registration of handguns.

4.   Recently, the federal government set its own minimum standards for landfills.

5.   Taken together, all these requirements constitute a set of minimum professional standards by which individual practitioners can be assessed and judged.

6.   The Acts lay down a minimum standard for air quality, and impose pollution emission controls to particular polluters.

7.   The composition of fluid whole milk is regulated by federal laws that set minimum standards for milk fat and solids nonfat.

8.   The directive is based on minimum standards - but I am caught out by the time, Madam Deputy Speaker.

9.   We need world trade agreements which set minimum standards for corporate behaviour, rather than maximum standards for regulation.