The Cape Verdean government has taken steps in recent years to promote foreign investment in tourism infrastructure, resulting in large scale development on a few of the ten principal islands.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"For the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant, the largest of its kind in the entire nation, will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

This has been the situation in the Congo for many years." One of the reports focuses on the actions of government forces, some of whom engaged in large-scale pillaging, arbitrary killings and sexual violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The author acknowledges that after nine years of large-scale U.S.military involvement in the Middle East, and with the nation's economic difficulties bearing down on them, many Americans feel the temptation to pull the U.S.strong horse out of the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18