Scientists measure solar activity by counting dark areas on the sun's surface.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

He can no more judge the wishes of the great mass of our people by the words of these middlemen than he can measure the ocean's silent depths by the foam upon its waves."

VOA: special.2010.06.24

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Senator Joe Lieberman is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee: "By any measure, SBInet has been a failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Democrats noted that it would insure only 3 million Americans, versus the 36 million helped by their measure.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The measure was passed by a narrow 23 to 22 vote with one member not participating.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

But many analysts also say that may be a temporary situation, because they don't expect the measure to be taken up by the full House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Because bars, restaurants and night clubs have been closed by the state government as a precautionary measure, people who have money have few places to spend it.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The White House has declared the unemployment bill an emergency measure, meaning it does not have to be offset by spending cuts in other areas of the federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The bill's sponsors say that by putting a price on carbon released into the atmosphere, the measure would help reduce America's reliance on fossil fuels and cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

But before any bill can become law, the Senate must pass its version, the House and Senate bills must be reconciled and that final measure must be signed by the President.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Republican Jeb Hensarling says changes agreed to by Democrats and Republicans have improved the measure,adding that it should attract strong bipartisan support when it comes up for a vote in the House.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

In an off-year election seen by some political pundits as a measure of support for President Barak Obama's popularity after his first year in office, the opposition Republicans have picked up the state house in two formerly Democratic states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03