And with only two months left and numerous hurdles remaining, questions are being raised about whether nations can narrow their differences in time.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"These crimes know no borders. In Iran, children are forced into sexual slavery, involuntary servitude, while Iranian girls are trafficked into Pakistan and numerous other countries.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Kurdish opposition groups led by the "Goran", or Change block of Nusherwan Mustapha, issued a list of complaints about improper electoral procedures and numerous irregularities during Saturday's vote.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

And there is almost no effort to combine the numerous federal regulatory agencies into a single financial regulator.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Shuttles have lifted numerous scientific instruments, observatories,satellites and probes into space.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

He thought the answer might lie in the numerous studies over the years that looked at diet and heart disease."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

"This facility had a record of numerous and serious safety violations including 515 violations last year alone."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

He was a bestselling author of numerous books. He had a loving marriage and twin three-year-old girls.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

Numerous foreigners, including Britons and Americans, have been kidnapped in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

He has challenged the administration's commitment to fighting terror in numerous speeches and interviews.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

Militants have mounted numerous suicide attacks in Pakistan during the past two-and-one-half years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Numerous studies indicate African-Americans and Hispanics receive a poorer quality of health care than non-Hispanic whites, even when they have the same levels of income and health insurance coverage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

The president has said on numerous occasions that the key to combating al-Qaida and Taliban advances is a regional approach that includes three elements: military action,diplomacy, and support for development.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Rights activists note that the police and army in the south have been accused of numerous human rights abuses over the past few years, few of which have been investigated.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

There have been numerous allegations that British intelligence officers were involved in the questioning of terror suspects held abroad and that they may have known some of the suspects were being tortured.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

"The Cuban people are not free." Numerous other leaders expressed hope for sustained dialogue between the United States and Cuba that will lead to normalized relations, while addressing human rights and political reform on the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

I think it really affects her." Mara's Nancy is among numerous nods to the original film and,of course,true to the genre, the characters get themselves into situations that have the audience shouting "don't go in there!"

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Khabure said that her best sense of the situation is that the LRA's original objectives were long ago hijacked by the numerous outside groups who benefited from the region's instability and began supporting Kony's rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

The director of the Harare-based Research and Advocacy Unit,Tony Reeler, says a review of investigations by numerous rights groups shows that torture and gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe have been perpetrated for decades on what he calls an epidemic scale.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Khan pointed to numerous scientific studies from Europe,Canada, and the United States, as well as reports from the World Health Organization and the U.S.Institute of Medicine, that all show a link between veterinary use of antibiotics and higher risk of drug-resistant infections among humans.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21