It limited the amount of money railroads could demand from people who needed to travel or transport their goods.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Economic losses from the disease amount to an estimated one percent of the African economy each year.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

"People are more focused on communicable diseases and not paying enough attention to the amount of disability there is from mental health conditions.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

It aims to decrease the amount of added sugar from many products that children eat.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

The wedding got an extreme amount of attention from the media.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

We quickly learned that we had overestimated everything: the ability of our vehicle, the distance we could travel in a day, the amount of money we needed and our desire to be away from home.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

It is vast,it costs an enormous amount of money, but of course it is funded from taxation and the contribution made by patients."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

BP is continuing efforts to increase the amount of oil being captured from its damaged underwater well.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

But knowing what percentage this is of the total amount leaking from the well will not be possible until a tight seal is on the well.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Speaking by telephone from Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, he told VOA this staggering amount of money allowed the Red Cross to undertake the biggest permanent housing program in its history.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

"The amount of pressure from economic fronts, it is just enormous,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

The mission found the repeated firing of rockets and mortars into southern Israel by Palestinian armed groups from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip constituted war crimes that may amount to crimes against humanity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

We all know that overseas development assistance allocated to agriculture dropped from 18 percent in 1978 to just over four percent in 2008, The amount of money spent by developing countries on agriculture during that same period also dropped sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Referring to last week's upward revision of the amount of oil leaking from the well, with substantially higher numbers than originally estimated by BP, Admiral Allen said President Obama and government officials want to make sure that BP is applying sufficient resources to deal with the spill.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14