"This year,however, there were some very promising clinical results that indicate that it may be starting to work the way that people always hoped that it would.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Strauss-Kahn told an audience for 2010 at Washington's National Press Club that there are signs that the free-fall in the global economy may be starting to abate.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

Yes! It turns out that it is." But that's not enough to start the revolution that they claim to be starting and that's I think my principal disappointment here.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

"We will be starting with proximity talks next week.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

For the first time, Americans will be required to have health insurance or face a yearly fine starting in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

He refused.Lincoln believed that starting an investigation would be like lighting a barrel of gunpowder.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

She wanted to be fully educated about the art collection she was starting to build.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Great powers should be careful about starting, but once they start they should be relentless and implacable about winning."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Roberto Carcelen will be among the skiers at the starting line and Philip Boit is hoping to join him.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

He says these improved systems will be gradually deployed, starting in about 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

"And we intend to raise this violation of the Security Council resolution, if it goes forward,in the U.N., and coincidentally Mexico will be chairing the Security Council starting in April."

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"This is the starting point. Unless there is an end, a real cessation from these activities, it will be difficult for any Palestinian negotiator to come back to the table.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

"As we expand, we will be creating jobs in Margibi. We will be creating jobs in Bong County where we are starting to operate, certainly Montserado with the power plant and the distribution,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Authorities are taking no chances. Although they have announced there will be no red zone, an alcohol ban will come into force starting Tuesday in the center of Rome and the area surrounding the stadium.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury official leading the pay review, says the executives' salaries will be cut by as much as 90 percent, and their average total compensation will drop by about half, starting in November.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

U.S.officials said they were hopeful the 7,000 figure for new allied forces would be just a starting point, and that additional commitments could come as soon as a NATO force-generating meeting set for next week in the Belgian city of Mons.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

At the same time, the Zimbabwe government's Herald newspaper quoted senior government officials as saying they would like to normalize ties with the EU but that the starting point would be for the EU to admit that the sanctions are wrong.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12