standard of comfort
Example Sentences
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Families are restricted whenever the parents have social ambitions and a standard of comfort.
From The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 by Inge, William Ralph
"Pitch your standard of comfort high, and your income will look after itself," is scarcely an unfair description of the rule of prudent imprudence they inculcated on working people.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
Peace and order helped to raise the standard of comfort.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
Just as it is admitted that the result of an equal shortening of hours will be different in every trade, so will the result of a given rise in standard of comfort be different.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
In other words, a "bare subsistence wage" does not gain by a fall in the price of the articles which belong to its standard of comfort.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
