The warm,dry conditions have prompted the authorities to warn that Australia's annual bushfire season is again likely to be severe.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went on trial on corruption charges that prompted him to resign last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

But stuttering tends to run in families, a fact that prompted Drayna and colleagues to search for a genetic link.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

That has prompted a call from the French government for these universities to institute new admissions procedures favoring underprivileged students.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The Srinagar police chief contends the debate, at least, has prompted more people in Kashmir to oppose this particular expression of resistance.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

The allegations prompted U.S commander of the international forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, to order a detailed investigation into the incident.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

India's Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, says the country's comfortable foreign exchange reserves prompted the Reserve Bank or RBI to invest in the precious metal.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

That prompted the central government to dispatch border security and police reserve forces to the area.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

The Kremlin's media grip has prompted several prominent Russian journalists to move their programs to Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

The payment crisis marked a turning point for India's economy as it prompted the government to reverse decades of closed-door, socialist style economic policies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Mudd suspects that increased pressure on the Pakistani Taliban in the form of US drone attacks could have prompted militants to directly target the US.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

The criticism prompted the Pakistani government to order a major offensive in late April to regain control of the Swat and other insurgency hit districts.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

That prompted him to help establish a victims' support group in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The group's violent takeover of Gaza in 2007 prompted Israel to impose the blockade.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

The leaked report has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to call on President Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder,to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate the allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The scene prompted some commentators to recall the bad old days when the AU's predecessor, the Organization of African Unity, was known as the Club of Dictators.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

However it was the Communists' subsequent failure to secure election of their presidential candidate that prompted a new election in July which brought the pro-western coalition to power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The review was prompted,in part, by a grim assessment from General McChrystal, who is here at the NATO meeting to provide a direct readout to the defense ministers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Financial problems and voter registration issues, particularly issues of nationality and voter eligibility, have already prompted Ivory Coast to push back the election several times since current President Gbagbo's mandate ran out in October 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

That prompted a strong protest from China. U.S.military officials deny they bowed to pressure from Beijing and moved the maneuvers from the Yellow Sea, saying the Sea of Japan actually is the most appropriate venue for this drill.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

The government's diversity drive for the grandes ecoles has prompted a call by a group of academics for the state to level the playing field in other areas, like offering more housing and scholarships to poorer students attending these institutions.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The threat,made on December 31 in a message posted on an extremist Internet Web site, prompted the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to elevate the risk for all U.S.military and commercial ships sailing through an area stretching from Somalia to the Persian Gulf.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03