But they do tend to recover much more rapidly than we tend to anticipate."

VOA: special.2011.03.04

About one thousand participants are meeting to find ways of ensuring food security for a rapidly growing world population.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

General McChrystal said the key objectives are to improve security and transfer responsibility to the Afghan forces "as rapidly as conditions allow."

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

China is particularly keen to secure supplies of oil and natural gas to fuel its rapidly expanding industries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

They did not get made in a year. And they are not going to get fixed very rapidly,either."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

But,the world now has the means to rapidly diagnose malaria and treat it effectively.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Word that pop idol Michael Jackson had died spread rapidly through New York City, as stunned residents sent text messages and emails to inform friends of the news.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

"Now they are checked by Interpol. Before we did not have a communications system that allowed information to be exchanged rapidly around the world with all of our countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The hum of the spinning blades is the sound of China going green as it seeks to address the growing energy demands of its rapidly modernizing consumer society and fast-paced industrialization.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

But not everyone believes that more U.S.troops, however rapidly deployed, will assure the defeat of Taliban militants and deny terrorists a safe haven from which to plan attacks on Western targets.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

While the Internet's use of language might change rapidly over the next few years, Johnson,Crystal and Jansen all point out that educators need to ensure that students maintain an academic understanding of the use and rules of language.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Even if U.S.economic output expands in 2010 and more Americans head back to work, both critics and supporters of the president say the nation faces a more serious challenge to future economic viability: a rapidly growing deficit and a national debt estimated at more than $12 trillion.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15