These social supports may help explain why many women seem to be better able to deal with stress than men are.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

They found that people with the normal length of the gene were better able to weather life's storms.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

The garden mum is better able to handle different growing conditions than the florist mum.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

And fifty-six percent said they were better able to find information.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Eikenberry said part of the effort during the next 18 months will be to boost Afghanistan's economy so that Afghans are better able to fund their own troops.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

New research has found that mice with cancer are better able to fight off the disease when they are in complex, stimulating environments, with lots of toys and other mice that they interact - and compete - with.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

She has been able to send her children to school so that they can have a better life.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

The researchers said people in Mali were able to deal better with the food crisis.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

For example,doctors are able to use better instruments to examine organs in the body.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

"This is an evaluation instrument that is finally able to capture who is highly effective and who is ineffective and who could be doing better and could use some assistance.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

"That's how I see writing." "It's not so much that it makes your identity, but that it helps you see it, and it helps you be able to define it better and understand it better.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Analysts say by including private investors in the new initiative the government will be able to better evaluate the true value of these troubled assets and investors will have a stake in making a profit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

"They want to be able to make money, they want to be able to put food on the table, they want to be able to have better lives, they want more freedom to be economic citizens."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13