It says its humanitarian efforts are being hampered by lack of funds.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

Seiko of Japan was shocked by the blocked doors, and lack of fire safety equipment in the Triangle Factory.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

A new report warns that promising developments in HIV prevention could be undermined by funding gaps and a lack of political will.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

It was the first manned mission to orbit the moon. "NASA has been burdened with a lack of enthusiasm by the taxpayers."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Mr.Obama said maneuvering by Senate Republicans to block extension of unemployment benefits demonstrates, what he called,a lack of faith in the American people.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

And,he says,law enforcement's efforts are often hindered by a lack of resources - and other priorities.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Indonesian views of the United States have been tempered by what many say has been the lack of change in U.S.foreign policy toward the Muslim world.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

His aim is to ease decades of tensions between Muslims and the United States tensions heightened by the war in Iraq and lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Instead,his goal will be to ease tensions between the United States and the world's Muslims tensions intensified by the Iraq war and a lack of progress in the Middle East peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05