It's hard work done with basic tools. But many farmers lost the tools they need in January's earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.04.02

If a large financial institution should ever fail, we will have the tools to wind it down without endangering the larger economy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud says countries must have the tools to adapt to a changing climate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

He said the G-20 agreement to provide more money to the IMF means that the lending agency will have the tools necessary to help countries in financial distress.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

The tools are available. They just have to be implemented.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Educators say the goal will be to improve student academic performance in math, science and technology courses, while giving them the tools they need to build lasting professional careers in a 21st-century, knowledge-based economy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

"This is a tragic thing," "We came into this crisis without the authority and the tools necessary to contain the damage to the American economy posedby the very severe pressures working through the financial system."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The writers say microfinance is one of the important tools for empowering women and lifting them out of these conditions.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

The researchers also found tools used by the Clovis culture, a group of human beings who lived at that time.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

He has a big collection of interesting small objects such as maps,tools, game pieces,and dolls for putting inside the containers.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Now that we know about grapes and geography, we have some important tools for understanding the label on a bottle of wine.

VOA: special.2010.10.13

Once the solid glass object cools, an artist uses special tools to carve an opening in the container.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

But she says they believe it would be a terrible mistake not to use these influential tools to contribute to the answers.

VOA: special.2009.11.27