"The first thing is not numbers,". "It is to find and fine-tune the right approach to implement the strategy already laid down.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

"Republicans were very down after the 2008 and 2006 elections and really,polls numbers are not so good for them today as a party,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

But efforts by governments to extend and prolong unemployment benefits, and to offer more job counseling and training have not kept up with the rising numbers of jobless.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

And particularly labor market numbers, unemployment, and unemployment lags recovery - so even when an aggregate recovery starts, those numbers are not going to turn around immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

it's not about numbers. It's about a plan and the execution of a plan to have tens-of-thousands of people removed from an areas by killing them, by putting them in camps,by rapes.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

He has had a bad summer. His numbers are down, health care is in peril and he has not been able to work his will on his own party, much less the opposition Republicans."

VOA: standard.2009.09.02