21.   China has said it wants to enter the World Trade Organization on the same footing as developing countries.

22.   Klein, Feely and other advocates of concealed-carry say it would lower crime rates by putting law-abiding citizens on the same footing as armed criminals.

23.   The ECNs, meanwhile, have asked the regulators to put them on the same legal footing as the traditional exchanges.

24.   The majority of Macedonian legislators spoke out against a proposed amendment describing all the citizens of the country as on the same footing in the constitution.

25.   The measure would grant China permanent normal trade relations, putting it on the same footing as nearly every other country with which the United States trades.

26.   In the new text, crimes against private property will be considered on the same footing as ones against state property.

27.   A Commission proposal to put the Baltic states on the same footing as the six was also heard but no decisions taken.

28.   Another possible scenario however is that both parties finish roughly on the same footing and one of them then seals an alliance with the best-placed of the leftist parties.

29.   But this time the German troops will be participating on the same footing as the others, German ministers say.

30.   These will put Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on the same footing as the six.