Irons says temporary deficits are normal and even desirable during severe economic downturns, but must be corrected in the long term.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Their bodies are already producing things that could,long term, be damaging to them, even when they're really young."

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Secretary Gates said the United States will continue to have a long-term commitment to helping Afghanistan even after the security transition is completed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"Even petty bribery,small bribery, is not a long-term sustainable approach to kind of grease the wheels,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Over the past few decades,however, scientists have determined that even trace amounts of lead in children's bodies leads to long-term neurological and behavioral problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

One woman even asked him if he would commit now to running for a second term.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

The entire legislative schedule is even more compressed as lawmakers and the White House increasingly turn their focus to the November mid-term congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

"If you look at things like infection,pre-term delivery, even gestational diabetes mellitus, they are all reduced with givng pregnant women higher doses of vitamin D."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

And they might get even busier. Though Japan is now showing signs of economic recovery, economists say the long-term forecast remains unclear, as exports remain weak.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The long term effects of breathing polluted air are even more alarming.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

" It is a good sign and it is very quick for a president to receive the Nobel Prize even though he didn't finish a whole year in his term,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Even using the term the Taliban is misleading.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Lois Fischbeck of Maryland came to urge the court to ban capital punishment, even though the justices are not scheduled to take on a particular case this term that would deal with the issue directly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The United States had tried to mediate in the simmering dispute that led to the coup, centering on what Mr.Zelaya's opponents saw as an effort to remain in power even though obligated by term limits to leave office in January.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01