1.   The interests of the shareholders become an objective standard to govern the actions of the directors.

2.   They provided an objective standard by which we could judge ourselves.

3.   Both Pataki and Weld know that there are few objective standards for application of the death penalty.

4.   A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that it was constitutionally unfair to recount only certain ballots with no objective standard.

5.   By objective standards, the last half century of our national life has been hugely successful.

6.   He insists that what made the United States the envy of the world was the rewarding of winners in competitions judged by objective standards.

7.   Multiculturalism posits that there is no objective standard by which one culture can be judged superior to another, thus enshrining the principle of equality.

8.   Patients say the treatment must meet objective standards of proper medical care.

9.   Sexual harassment law has never fit easily into a judicial system that favors objective standards and demands facts that can be sifted and weighed.

10.   So much for the sanctity of objective standards.