But he has also taken a more populist approach promising to nearly double the minimum wage and build 5,000 new homes a year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

The minimum wage is relatively high compared to the wage in France so it's a barrier when you don't have any qualifications and when you start your career."

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The 34-year-old Rajoelina, who is six years younger than the minimum age required by the constitution to be president, earlier announced he was forming an interim government that would revise the constitution and hold elections within two years.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

His main opponent, the controversial mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandic, came in second with nearly The men will face each other in a final election round on January 10th, since they failed to gain the minimum of 50 percent plus one vote to win outright.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

A third new law forced companies doing business with the federal government to pay workers a minimum wage.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

The pay is seven dollars and twenty-five cents an hour the federal minimum wage.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Gibbs said the White House is confident that at minimum a vote in the House can happen before the president leaves on his trip.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

"To be able to negotiate with the other side, at a bare minimum the other side has to have an incentive to talk to you.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

The state require sa minimum I. Q of 80 to attend public school.

VOA: standard.other

There are many barriers concerning the relatively high minimum wage.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

and other world leaders. The former Libyan intelligence agent was sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in prison by a specially convened Scottish Court in The Netherlands in 2001, but he always proclaimed his innocence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

At the heart of the controversy were changes to marriage laws, including articles that set the legal minimum age for marriage at 18, recognize only civil marriages, allow joint property ownership, expand parental rights, and extend inheritance rights to girls.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27