The word 'Western' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to the geographic region of the world containing Europe and the Americas, or to describe the culture and lifestyle associated with this region. For example, "Many people love the look and feel of Western-style clothing."
All presidential and parliamentary elections held during the independence era have been deemed flawed by independent western monitoring groups.
These reached boiling point in the western city of Zhanaozen in late 2011 when authorities opened fire on striking workers, leaving at least 14 dead.
Western observers have never deemed any Uzbek presidential or parliamentary election in the post-Soviet era to be free and fair.
(My dad was followed because he admired western technology).
Their talk was of rival software packages and camera types, and the scholarships to western universities they always just seemed to miss.
And it is the Saudis who now, in improbable alliance with Binyamin Netanyahu's Israel, lobby most forcefully against any American nuclear deal, or broader western rapprochement, with Shia Iran, their sworn enemy.
Far from bolstering stability, Saudi policy actively works against western attempts to end the standoff with non-Arab Iran – still the natural regional partner for London and Washington that it was before the 1979 revolution.
The growing gulf between Saudi Arabia and its more sceptical western partners is nowhere more apparent than in the key area of security and defence cooperation, upon which the relationship was founded in 1915.
His painting includes references to Arabic calligraphy as well as western graffiti styles.
The more the western world was able to invent and innovate in the past 300 years, the more "civilised" it became.
Western science led to the invention of gunpowder and other superior military weapons that outclassed bows, arrows and spears.
