standard of comfort
Example Sentences
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The decline of the birth-rate, they say, "is associated with a general raising of the standard of comfort, and is an expression of the determination of the people to secure this greater comfort."
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
By keeping up the standard of comfort among the poor themselves; 2.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
Everyone who knows Europe at all is aware of the high standard of comfort in all the small countries—Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland.
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
The Old West raised the issues of nativism and a lower standard of comfort.
From The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
In the United States and in a few trades of Holland, where the standard of comfort was as high or higher than in the corresponding English industries, more or better work was done.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
