21.   By Western standards, the schemes are breathtakingly transparent.

22.   Certainly, with no major repairs during the past four years, road surfaces are far below Western standards.

23.   By Western standards the sums involved are usually small, but by the same standards these practices are corrupt.

24.   By Western standards, consumer spending in China still looks fine.

25.   By Western standards, of course, the incomes are still tiny.

26.   Her poems are ripe with sexual imagery daring even by Western standards.

27.   Homelessness and crime are still, by Western standards, extremely rare in China.

28.   In a nation whose new democracy falls well short of Western hygienic standards, that was a refreshing statement all by itself.

29.   In October it plans to award a contract for construction of a new series of satellites, brought up to Western technological standards, said Veshinov.

30.   Instead it is a sobering reminder of how far Russia still remains from Western standards of open government.