21.   But with the party and the state firmly in control of the judicial system, China is a long way from meeting international legal standards.

22.   By ordinary legal standards it was a travesty of a proceeding.

23.   By new legal standards that had just gone into effect at midnight, prosecutors say Thomas was drunk.

24.   Christina Crawford testified in various state and federal hearings on legal standards for child welfare and advised Los Angeles County on the reorganization of its family courts.

25.   Efforts to combine lawsuits around the country under one settlement have failed in the past, largely because of widely varying legal standards from state to state.

26.   Experts say lawyers and judges are jousting over the ambiguous legal standards shareholders must meet when accusing companies of securities fraud.

27.   First, they say Congress should strengthen the legal standards under which courts grant permission for law enforcement to track incoming and outgoing e-mail addresses.

28.   Government rules and legal standards should clearly prohibit the kind of move made by Abbell.

29.   He said those odd-shaped districts are the result of trying to fit the statewide map into competing legal standards and not for political or personal reasons.

30.   His fate in Bankruptcy Court depends on a legal standard different from what prevailed at his criminal trial.