Maureen Maitland of Standard and Poor's. "There has only been one quarter of positive news.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

An IOM study indicates about one-quarter of these families are living in squatter camps, public buildings or vacated homes.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

That distinction belongs to the broadcast network itself, which takes as much as one-quarter of the commercial time to promote its own shows.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

Unusually severe rains began falling on September 1 in Burkina Faso, depositing about one-quarter of the country's annual rainfall on the capital,Ouagadougou in just one day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

That means that one-quarter of Burkina Faso's annual rainfall happened in just one day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

The U.N.refugee agency reports deadly clashes between government forces and rebel groups have forced about one-quarter of a million Somalis to flee the capital, Mogadishu since May.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

On a related issue, spokesman Rupert Colville says the situation of one-quarter of a million displaced Tamils living in internment camps continues to be of great concern.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

Hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world remain stranded for a third day as European flights were slashed Saturday down to one-quarter of their normal number.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

That is one-quarter of the country's average annual rainfall.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

More than 150,000 people have left their homes in Burkina Faso, many in the capital Ouagadougou, where the United Nations says the amount of rain that fell in one day last week equals one-quarter of the nation's average annual rainfall.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

And in front of us, we have the possibility of sustained growth,helping billion, one billion people to get out of poverty,' The world economy has shown steady improvement since the second quarter of 2009, but Strauss-Kahn says the recovery has been uneven.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21