31.   It has prided itself on using Western standards of balance and objectivity to deliver local news and political analysis for countries whose media lacked those qualities.

32.   It is upgrading its facilities to meet Western standards and thus let it sell into the Western European markets.

33.   Many of them are from poor countries and not well trained by Western standards.

34.   Most of these are former state enterprises spun off by the government after adopting Western accounting standards.

35.   Most of these loans are minuscule by Western standards, and Citibank just is not set up to handle tiny investments, even if they are potentially very profitable.

36.   Noise and air pollution regulations in Europe and the United States also make Russian planes less attractive to international clients because they do not yet meet Western standards.

37.   Nor is energy efficiency by Western standards a big concern in much of the Pacific Rim.

38.   Only GAZ, the second-ranking car maker, can be regarded as well managed by western standards.

39.   One possibility may be in converting Soviet-era nuclear plants to Western standards, he said.

40.   Poetry has a long tradition in Japan, but over the last two decades it has surged in popularity to a level that is simply unfathomable by Western standards.