Two voters in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, where there is a significant Taliban presence, had their ink-stained fingers chopped off by insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

In an appearance Friday, in Allentown,Pennsylvania , President Obama called the November jobs figure "modestly encouraging" but said he will not be satisfied until there is sustained significant improvement.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Declarations,commitments and speeches don't feed hungry people, He says the scale of the challenge is significant. There are more than one billion poor and hungry people in the world today.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"Whether or not they blame Karzai for that personally, I think that there is a general sense among significant parts of the population that it may be time for a change.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

"Otherwise you have the really problematic bottom line, which is that the Central Intelligence Agency is running a program that is killing significant numbers of people and there is absolutely no accountability in terms of the relevant international laws,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27