"On the directive of the government, the army is now in full scale operation to eliminate,militants,miscreants and anti-state elements from Swat,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

"An emergency of a scale different to what we have seen before in the modern era."

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Pahvan Sukdhev says that the change called for is in scale similar to the industrial revolution, but with a heightened sense of urgency, because of the threat of climate change.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

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

He is teamed up with Isaak to track and weigh the amount of fish they are bringing in to help the DNR better understand the scale of the Asian Carp problem.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

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

"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

He says that's not fair. "Whether it's gay marriage, whether it's making changes in the community or making changes on a broad scale - if I'm a citizen of the United States, it affects me as well."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

General Petraeus appeared to be pointedly rejecting suggestions by some analysts, and some officials and members of Congress, that the United States should scale back its ground operations in Afghanistan and focus on air strikes and special operations missions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

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

"We give them a huge market here, and on top of that if cars can be exported, there are great economies of scale, achieved in Thailand for example something that could not be where the domestic market is really small."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"When the request came through for us to consider re-forming to play, we felt that the immense scale of what had happened in Victoria and the really necessary kind of giving from other quarters to help people meant that it was something we should take very,very seriously,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.14