"In areas where the sleeping sickness is still very prevalent, such as remote areas of some central African countries -- which are by the way very unstable areas -- it will be also crucial to have simpler treatment and obviously oral treatment would be the best."

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Marco Incerti, from the Brussels-based Center for European Policy Studies, says this vote is crucial to the European Union.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

Reigning-in corruption is crucial to attracting foreign investment to a nation where 80 percent of people are unemployed.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

This will provide crucial clues to what caused the crash - India's worst in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who noted the crucial role Asia is playing in a post recessionary world.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

In addition to the pipeline, the new Czech government faces other E.U.challenges, including a crucial June summit that will deal with the so-called Lisbon Treaty.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

He says fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida there is crucial to security in Britain.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

He said it is crucial to re-establish order so that we can work together.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

U.S.and Afghan officials say those same areas act as Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens for cross-border attacks, making them a crucial part of the Afghan insurgency's resiliency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

A strong commitment to working together will be crucial, says economist Gianluca Benigno of the London School of Economics - crucial for public perception and for jittery markets.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

The politically-mixed state of Ohio is often crucial to presidential campaigns.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

How that wood is grown and whether it was harvested legally have become crucial questions since 2008, when the U.S.Congress amended a century-old piece of environmental law known as the Lacey Act.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

He says finding that out will be crucial. "Whether this was an act of terrorism conducted by al-Qaida central or that of a lone wolf acting independently, we will have to wait and see for the investigation and what comes out of that, but we do know that al-Qaida and their affiliates have a crazed obsession in targeting the aviation industry,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.27