"I think it's inevitable that people are going to demand in greater numbers accountability and better governance from their leaders."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Voters in Namibia turned out in large numbers before dawn to cast their ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

IOM monitors in Anbar province report increasing numbers of children are leaving school to help support their families through begging, petty trade or doing odd jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.20

In one year,that number would double. The auto industry was failing, banks had become reluctant to lend and Americans were losing their homes in record numbers.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

The protesters plan to work their way north in vehicle convoys, gradually adding to their numbers as they move through cities and towns in the coming days.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

In July,President Barak Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agreed to reduce their respective numbers of nuclear warheads to between 1,500 and 1,675 under a new treaty.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

Experts say accountability is key in determining the future use of certain practices such as confining thousands of protesters into small areas for hours on end and of some officers removing badge numbers from their uniforms in crowd control situations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

This brought in their writing skills. After we talk about all of them, we will write the numbers down - now this is three and two more - before we even tell them the plus sign, you know,how to join things together."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10