101.   In recent years, the regulators and investors have pressed banks to reveal these reserves to conform to international banking standards.

102.   In many ways, Major League Soccer officials have a much more demanding set of circumstances than those in other US sports because they are measured against international standards.

103.   In the past, the international standards were notable largely for the wide discretion they gave companies.

104.   In the United States, on the other hand, adherence to international standards can be complicated by independent legislative action.

105.   International moral standards of conduct, long derided by geopoliticians, now have muscle.

106.   International standards also require banks to mark all portfolio holdings to market prices.

107.   International standards are just as important in terms of software as in hardware.

108.   It also said some of those rules limit competition in financial markets and are incompatible with international standards.

109.   It conducts trials in only a few of the best hospitals, and adds new hospitals only as they meet international standards.

110.   It has begun to observe international standards in human rights, another area that was once considered off-limits to foreign pressure.