standard of comfort
Example Sentences
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By an economic holding is meant one of sufficient productive capacity to support a family at a reasonable standard of comfort without help from outside sources.
From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.
It might, therefore, appear that as one industry after another fell under machine-production, the tendency of machine-development must necessarily make for a general elevation of the standard of comfort among the working classes.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
Her standard of comfort at a hotel was so impossible that she became an object of terror and dislike to the waiters and chambermaids.
From The Third Miss Symons by Mayor, F. M. (Flora Macdonald)
It is easy to conjure up conditions under which the standard of comfort of wage-earners in England would be seriously threatened.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
The Old West raised the issues of nativism and a lower standard of comfort.
From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson
