standard of life
Example Sentences
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"It's about protecting a minimum standard of life for their children and for themselves," he said.
From BBC • Jul. 14, 2022
“We are living in this standard of life for eight years, so we have like psychological immunity.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021
It has a business-oriented, right-of-center government which recognizes that the social pact with its citizens extends to providing everyone with a high standard of life until the very end.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016
Yet, the idea of working less is not only feasible, it is also the basis for a better standard of life.
From Time • Sep. 2, 2015
It is obvious, moreover, that a measure of external control was necessary to keep up the standard of life in the many monastic houses of Europe and to reform common breaches of discipline.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen