In this way,Roosevelt and Willkie tried to keep America's growing involvement in the war from becoming a major political issue in the election.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

How to respond to the Arab uprisings was a major question for world leaders this week at the Group of Eight meeting in France.

VOA: special.2011.05.27

But in a country that was suffering a major recession, this kind of work was a good way for unemployed people to make money.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

This area of the world was a major supplier of these resources in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

"This material doesn't just reveal abuses, this material describes the past six years of war, every major attack that resulted in someone being detained or someone being killed."

VOA: special.2010.07.31

"Clearly one of the major implications of something like this would be for use in developing countries: maybe for testing HIV, maybe for testing for tuberculosis, or perhaps even malaria."

VOA: special.2010.12.06

And since natural gas is a major ingredient in fertilizer, the cost of this essential farm supply could go up,too.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Even before this oil leak, BP's safety policies were in doubt following major accidents in Alaska and Texas in the past decade.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

In addition to this major benefit, Sun points out that less refined grains tend to have more nutritional benefits than their refined counterparts.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

Health reform is expected to be a major issue in this November's elections for Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

When leaders of the world's 20 major economies met in London early this month, they endorsed a new International Monetary Fund program for combating the global economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

"This is where we have found the major problems in SIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

Energy has become a major concern in several Western countries, after a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over prices led to major natural gas shortages in Europe earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The talks taking place this week in Barcelona will be the last before a major U.N.summit in December where delegates will hash out a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

This was done,he notes, in a major electoral fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

"If you contrast what is happening in this crisis to what we saw in the last major global crises of the last several decades, I think you are seeing more action now on a broader scale,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"Heart failure really begins to increase over the age of 60 when the chances of heart transplantation diminish, so this is going to be a major therapeutic option for a great many patients in the future,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

"But having learned lessons from the first elections that there was widespread fraud, irregularities and fraudulence, we will try our best in close coordination with Afghan leadership and Afghan institutions and other international major partners to make this election as fair and free of fraudulence,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Ileana Ros Lehtinen is the ranking committee Republican "It should be clear that unless we impose the maximum pressure on Iran, and this bill is a major step forward in that direction, the regime will continue its march toward acquiring nuclear weapons, dominating the Persian Gulf, and expanding its network of radical militants around the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28