There is existing permission for the construction of up to 40,000 housing units, according to Peace Now, and construction on 600 began this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

U.S.incomes edged slightly higher, and construction spending was also up.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The company's output of iron ore, as well as copper, zinc and nickel, surged in the last three months of 2009 because of strong demand from Chinese carmakers and construction companies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Cambodia's economy relies on garment exports, tourism and construction.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Manufacturing and construction were particularly hard hit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

She bought land, hired a building designer, and supervised every detail of her museum's construction.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

And some construction workers say they would refuse to build it.

VOA: special.2010.08.21

"It is a plant that will create thousands of construction jobs in the next few years, and some eight hundred permanent jobs well paying permanent jobs in the years to come."

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Prosecutors are investigating why so many modern buildings were flattened by the quake and whether flawed construction materials were to blame.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

"In the short term, we expect these projects to create about 5,000 construction and installation jobs around the country."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

U.S.officials have put pressure on the Israeli government to halt construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

The support troops perform a variety of functions such as mine clearance, equipment servicing, construction,air support, medical services and many others.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

The United States and Palestinians have demanded a complete freeze on settlement construction, but Israel refused and has offered a partial freeze.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

It also wants a guarantee from Hamas that militants will not use construction materials to build bunkers and weapons to attack Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Israel wants negotiations without preconditions and is ready to offer no more than a partial, temporary freeze on construction in the settlements.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says that will not happen until Israel stops all settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19