Meanings of maintaining the standards in English

How far is the condoning of offenses consistent with maintaining the standards of society?

I can imagine businesses such as that have problems in maintaining the standards that are required of them, he said.

They and their younger colleagues do this while maintaining the standards of devoted care traditionally associated with the Irish nursing profession.

It is a situation that would seriously militate against Kelleher's prospects of maintaining the standards she has worked so diligently to achieve in England.

TT: Maintaining the standards we need to maintain and also increasing our population capacity to cope with the number of tourists that are coming through.