But are we being fair by comparing the various regions SWFs and expecting them to adhere to Western standards?

DREAM demands that western standards be adopted in Africa too the programme routinely uses viral load assessment, and has introduced Highly Active Anti Retroviral Therapy (HAART)

As more of China s population converges to Western standards of consumption, demand for commodities and thus their prices will remain on an upward trajectory.

By any standard of justice, it is also just plain wrong.

Measured by Soviet standards, Russia has weakened.

So, by EU standards, it has been rushed through on a very fast track.

One is fast food, where everything is standardized.

His 63 65 approval rating prior to the annexation of Crimea appeared high by Western standards, but was low compared to his previous record and dangerously close to levels that would threaten his leadership.

By this standard, global warming doesn t come close.

Most of them were social democrats by European standards.

But it in certainly not a radical initiative at least by American standards.

The total value of outstanding cat bonds is small by Katrina standards.

And you're pretty rich by the standards of the world at large.

The historic influx of new entrants into the global work force, each aspiring to Western consumption standards, is simply pushing global growth past the safety marker on the speed dial.

Will the West remain Western?

They are poor by an absolute standard based on the most basic human needs.

America continues to lead the world in standard of living, productivity, and innovation.

Dean Wright, Global Editor, Ethics, Innovation and News Standards, Reuters

By the standards of centuries ago, we live in a world of unbelievable wealth.

As a result, the seatbacks fail to comply with federal auto safety standards on head restraints.

What is happening now in Mezhyhirya is a project unique even by world standards.

It would have been an act of supreme cynicism and hypocrisy, even by European standards, had he been selected.

IAS were issued between 1973 and 2001 by the Board of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).

This is a sentence that has the syllable count of a haiku.

It will only make Western leaders feel good.

On June 19, after a year s work, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards finally laid a large egg.

If everyone managed to live at American living standards today, we would need almost five planets.

I remembered this incident after I gave a lecture in Helsinki on global labor standards.

The newly built Sozina tunnel (4.2 km) shortened the journey from Podgorica to Bar (Montenegro's main seaport) to under 30 minutes.

It's this side of Russia, Campbell says, that's often missing in the Western media's typically one dimensional depiction of Russia.

First, the world must work from common standards.

I envy sometimes the artists of the West for their freedom of expression.

So it has never been proved, by the standards laid down in the US Constitution that any of them really are terrorists.

Ultimately, even Hurricane Katrina and other disasters of similar magnitude are small by world standards.

Rates and rules for personal and corporate income taxes appear reasonable by international standards.

There were few domestic brands out there, and the ones that were, weren't regarded as tasteful by the young generation s standards.

The Food Standards Agency, Codex Alimentarius, did not have a consensus on the maximal residual level (MRL) of ractopamine yet.

Getting more farmers into better paid manufacturing and service industry jobs will mean not only a reduction in poverty, but lower income disparity. By any moral standard, that goal is at least as important as anything on America s agenda.

By any moral standard, that goal is at least as important as anything on America s agenda.

Transcripts were not released in real time on subsequent days, and they omitted some crucial details (for example, Bo claimed that the Party s representatives threatened to execute his wife and prosecute his son if he refused to cooperate).

While the trial proceedings on the first day were refreshingly open by Chinese standards, that quickly changed.

Inshore fisheries are extremely lucrative by local standards, with the fins from a single shark being worth around 3000 Mets (approximately US 120).

Many Indian goods have much greater suitability for African than Western markets.

So the time has come for the West s central banks to become normal again.

Once again exposure to Western values has delivered another Potemkin Village