standard of comfort
Example Sentences
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It is not then precisely with the "standard of comfort" of male and female workers that we are concerned.
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)
Even in the textile factories, with the exception of weaving, most of the scales of wages are below what would suffice to keep the recipient in the standard of comfort provided by the family wage.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
I once made a German exceedingly angry by saying that the standard of comfort was higher in England than in Germany.
From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.
But while the general standard of comfort has been rising, the proportion of the population who are unable to obtain it has been diminishing.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
