Both the president and the general are highly popular figures in wake of the victory over the Tamil rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Speaking in Germany, President Barack Obama said the unemployment figures show that the global economic slump is hitting the United States hard.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Close to 40 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the most popular figures in jazz.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"We estimate,based on some ILO figures that in industrialized countries there are over 100,000 trafficked migrant workers,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

At about the same time she realizes she is pregnant with twins, Zoe also figures out that she's falling in love with Stan.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Critics also say the European Union did not properly scrutinize the figures sent in by Athens.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Powell - one of the most respected and best known black political figures in the country - chose the same program to issue his rebuttal.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

The report notes unemployment figures among IDP families are significantly higher in the other governorates with those in Kirkuk, Quadissiya,Basrah and Wassit the worst affected.

VOA: standard.2009.09.20

"But we have to deal with the figures of authority that are in position."

VOA: standard.2009.08.09

International Labor Organization,ILO, figures say almost 80 percent of Thailand's female workforce fall into the informal sector category, many in areas outside Thailand's labor protection laws.

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

recession in December 2007, and follows moderating figures in three previous months.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

As many as 100,000 people may have died in the two wars between Russia and Chechnya since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but exact figures are not known.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Officials also still not have released any figures for voter turnout, which observers predict may be as low as 10 percent in areas where the Taliban insurgency is active.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

"And the U.S.State Department sentenced no opposition figures, intellectuals,journalists or bloggers to prisons in Syria,Egypt,Saudi Arabia and elsewhere around the Middle East, where they were subject to torture, rape and murder.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18