The researchers say Mali suffered less because it depended less on imported rice, in part because of geography.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Voter turnout was lower than expected, especially in the troubled south, in part because of Taliban threats to disrupt the balloting and retaliate against voters.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

He talked about big corporations like General Motors that are in trouble in part because of the high cost of providing health insurance to employees.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

But the party's popularity has dropped,in part because of a big financial deficit.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

[He owns several pictures of Boy Scouts,in part, because he made his first film as a Boy Scout project...

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

But the Japanese government and public refused to acknowledge it until then - in part, because of the stigma associated with poverty.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

just because you have a different religion or you're born in a different part of the world, we all experience the pain of a lost loved one,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

It's important for him to share stories. Growing up in Pendleton he was often found himself in the middle of racial tensions because he was is part white.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

But they did not take part in the recount because the court refused to allow each of them to send a political representative as well as a bailiff to observe the process.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Some of the local residents in Searchlight did not like the fact that outsiders had come in to target Senator Reid, who faces a difficult re-election bid this year, in part,because of his work in guiding the divisive health care reform bill through Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

Republicans are hoping for a replay of the 1994 midterm elections, when they won control of both the House and Senate in large part because of public opposition to the health-care-reform plan put forward by another Democrat in the White House,Bill Clinton.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"The right environment means, first of all, looking at the list with the United Nations and removing names that are not part of al Qaida, that are not part of a terrorist network, that are just there because somebody decided to put them in,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28