Mr.Reinfeldt underscored that the sanctions are primarily travel restrictions and a freeze of foreign assets of senior ZANU-PF officials.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The rules would require the investment houses to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission if their assets exceed a yet to be determined size.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Among the assets eyed by the prosecutors are several American mosques and a New York skyscraper owned by the Alavi Foundation and the Assa Corporation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Economists say India has bought gold to diversify its assets and hold fewer dollars at a time when the U.S.currency is weakening against other currencies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

In regular short-selling,traders borrow assets and sell them at a set price, hoping they can make a profit by buying them later at a lower price.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Mr.Fillon said he prefers the idea of a public-private partnership to buy up the bad assets, and that this will prompt European countries to consider similar measures.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

But the six-party talks have stalled over Pyongyang's refusal to accept a verification program for the declaration of its nuclear assets and activities that was agreed to last June.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Analysts say by including private investors in the new initiative the government will be able to better evaluate the true value of these troubled assets and investors will have a stake in making a profit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

"So we are only now beginning to be in a position to have the assets in place and the strategy or the military approach in place to begin to implement the strategy and this is going to take some time,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Ronald Noble is Interpol's Secretary General. "We agreed that we would create here in Cameroon, at our regional bureau, the first ever unit dedicated to tracing assets that were taken from a country in a corrupt fashion,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"I am very confident that that would leave us in the position where the government is taking risks it does not understand, cannot manage effectively, highly vulnerable to overpaying for those assets, and charges that we are giving a disguised subsidy that is unjustified,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24