His coach later said he would urge Phelps not to compete internationally until the ban takes effect next year.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

it takes effect in January. The new law may not go as far as some would like, but the action is historic.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Still,a theory exists that amyloid plaques are an effect of the disease, not the cause.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

It did not have much effect on the final result of America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The idea that observing disorder has an effect on people's behavior is not new.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

But it may not be to better effect, says the psychologist.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

(...) She says limiting the size of containers will not solve the problem, it will have the opposite effect.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

And seeing the devastating effect it has not only on the person who has it, but also on the family."

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"If the drugs ended tomorrow, it would not have a major effect on the Taliban source of funding,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

She explains that the strategy did not work as predicted because of what's called a population level effect.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

But he said the seriousness of corruption and its effect on society could not be ignored.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

In effect, they not only observe the event they're reporting about, they're also absorbing it.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

And so while there are signs that some of the things that the president is doing are starting to have effect, these problems did not get made overnight.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

"Because cardiovascular death is the number one cause of death in the world, not just in developed countries, but throughout the world, the role that air pollutants play on this has a tremendous effect on overall world mortality."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"When you can't say for sure whether all the women in the advance provision group actually used the medication, then you're kind of looking at population level effect of a strategy, not the individual effect of a medication."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

"We think because of the long term effect of the bone, there may be stress fractures that are not repairing and I think the bone is becoming brittle, and it's not exactly as if it occurs without any warning, but it occurs suddenly with minimal trauma."

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

lead author Matthew During of Ohio State University, described what happened after just three weeks, "And what was surprising to us was that the animals in the enriched environment, the cancers are 40 percent smaller" "When we moved that enrichment to six weeks,now, the cancers were approximately a dramatic effect,and not only that, but 17 percent of those animals had no tumors whatsoever."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"If all the investment now will be done in the city where there are huge needs to reconstruct all the infrastructure, where there will be a lot of demand in terms of construction work, then you will have again a pull effect from the rural areas back into a city that is not ready to absorb a lot more people than they have today."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"It is not just a case of understanding the activity at the volcano itself, what we are also seeing the effect of at the moment are the prevailing weather conditions because we are in a northerly air stream at the moment and that is bringing the volcanic dust from Iceland down over the U.K.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15