A drought can begin at any moment. And low prices brought on by foreign competition can make the whole enterprise unprofitable.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

new regulations, to help avoid the kind of risky behavior by financial institutions that brought on the U.S.banking crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

Harold Leslie is a senior installation manager: "We've brought on several new people since the first of the year."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Doctors say the damage brought on by these conditions eventually interrupts the natural exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

After six Eurostar trains broke down in or near the tunnel that runs under the English Channel, the system has been suspended while engineers troubleshoot the electrical problems thought to have been brought on by condensation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

But given the fact that this current weather system is forecast to be around for a few more days, the trouble brought on by the snow and wind will be felt well into the new week.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

At a similar gathering last year, members of the so-called G20 set of advanced economies agreed on emergency spending to stem a global crisis brought on by the collapse of U.S.investment bank Lehman Brothers in late 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

I have a dream today." A march on Washington had brought about two hundred fifty thousand people to demand racial equality and freedom.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Darwin said the Galapagos brought people near "to that great fact that mystery of mysteries the first appearance of new beings on earth."

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Pope brought up all his soldiers, and others were on the way from bases near Washington.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Success on Broadway brought him a part in the movie "The Big Broadcast of 1938."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Their agricultural economy depended on the labor of slaves originally brought from Africa.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

People who brought their supplies with them on the ship were lucky.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Monday's raid on ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists brought international criticism of Israel.

VOA: special.2010.06.05