The Obama administration is focusing most of its attention on getting a package of tougher sanctions through the United Nations Security Council.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

She said there will be increasing activity in the very near future aimed at achieving the votes needed in the U.N.Security Council for a package of sanctions on Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"At the end of the day, the way to avoid a nuclear-armed Iran is to put together a package of incentives and disincentives that persuade the Iranian government that they would actually be less secure with nuclear weapons than if they had them,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

And I think we're providing a kind of comedic stimulus package for the country and for other people who are struggling right now."

VOA: special.2010.11.22

Majority Democrats and President Obama identified job creation as a main objective of the economic stimulus package Congress approved last month.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

The Obama administration is implementing a $787 billion package of tax cuts and spending to stimulate the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

European Union ambassadors, meeting in Brussels,agreed Thursday to a new package of sanctions targeting Iran's energy sector.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Interrupting that cycle was a primary goal of President Obama's massive economic-stimulus package, which he championed almost immediately upon entering the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

It's a tiny sliver of the total aid package of $1.6 billion the UN had asked for.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

But not a single Republican voted for the package in the House of Representatives and only three voted for it in the Senate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

In April,the P5+1 offered Iran a revised package of incentives for it to halt uranium enrichment and return to negotiations over its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"You've got to look at it as part of a comprehensive package of counterterrorism measures."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Highlights of the reform package include tougher regulations of financial derivatives and securities, along with a $50-billion bailout fund, to be paid for by banks.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

"A good place to start, and what I hope to spend a lot of time on in these discussions today, is how we can move forward on a jobs package."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Republicans also bitterly oppose the Democrat's plan to avoid Republican obstruction in a later Senate vote on the modified package with a process that would allow approval with a simple majority of 51 votes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

"Right now we have about They get one package of food every two weeks, a total of six packages if they are really in dire circumstances then we sometimes renew their order and send them another six packages."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Senator Kerry said the package is intended to be a true sign of friendship for Pakistan, while spokesman Crowley said it creates balance in the U.S.aid program and that it is hard to see how that impedes Pakistan's military.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

In the first 51 days of this president, the administration has passed a series of really dramatic moves: the biggest financial rescue package that we have seen in decades, the largest stimulus in the history of the country, the biggest home foreclosure prevention and mortgage assistance program since the Depression."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

In a first reaction the EU's executive branch, the European Commission, said it was confident the Czech Republic could continue to "effectively preside over the European Union" despite the government losing a no-confidence vote in Prague Tuesday's vote of no confidence came after the opposition said the government came to late with a stimulus package of over three billion dollars to boost the ailing economy of this Eastern European nation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25