Microfinance,however, is a kind of aid that helps on a small scale in ways that are direct and local.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

"So today,my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

So we are going to be fighting a huge number of technology challenges. Then there is the whole scale issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Scott Campbell,the chief of the African Section of the U.N.Human Rights Office, says these atrocities are committed on a massive scale.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The U.N.data also reportedly shows fraud in favor of candidate Abdullah Abdullah, but on a much smaller scale.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

"An emergency of a scale different to what we have seen before in the modern era."

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"If you see a number of scores on a hundred point scale on the 40,50,60 range that suggests that people are moving back and forth.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

A party statement says "a real tsunami" of massive vote fraud "reached an industrial scale."

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

A total of 30 small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from 26 tons to more than 115 tons after gaining their organic certification.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

Right now, a scale is one of the only ways to monitor patients.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

The Obama administration says it is laying the groundwork to develop a vaccine against swine flu, although no decision has been made on large-scale production of such a vaccine.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

The Cape Verdean government has taken steps in recent years to promote foreign investment in tourism infrastructure, resulting in large scale development on a few of the ten principal islands.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Pahvan Sukdhev says that the change called for is in scale similar to the industrial revolution, but with a heightened sense of urgency, because of the threat of climate change.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

The awards are funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Judith Rodin of the Rockefeller Foundation said finding innovative ideas and expanding them to a large scale has proven to be hugely effective.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28