The military is expected to launch a full-scale assault on Taliban militants in the region bordering Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

"What I have seen here, South Africa can give much better, because it is a larger scale and everyone will be looking at South Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

But we are not in a situation yet where we can do that on a massive scale and unfortunately, they are slowly getting more angry I think and impatient."

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

Microfinance,however, is a kind of aid that helps on a small scale in ways that are direct and local.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

"So today,my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

"On a scale of ten, I would rate it at eight."

VOA: special.2010.06.14

A scale is measuring its weight.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

He said that a small-scale counterterrorism effort is not a viable alternative to the broader military operation now underway.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

So we are going to be fighting a huge number of technology challenges. Then there is the whole scale issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Scott Campbell,the chief of the African Section of the U.N.Human Rights Office, says these atrocities are committed on a massive scale.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The U.N.data also reportedly shows fraud in favor of candidate Abdullah Abdullah, but on a much smaller scale.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

Clinton says Washington is opening new business development centers and is working on a virtual entrepreneur network to link small-scale enterprises on line.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"An emergency of a scale different to what we have seen before in the modern era."

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"This is really tragic on a global scale, there's really major neglect about hepatitis B.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26