"I have felt blessed to represent the United States before the Supreme Court, to walk into the highest court in this country when it is deciding its most important cases, cases that have an impact on so many people's lives."

VOA: special.2010.05.15

In many parts of the world we've seen that if governments introduce social protection programs, measures for example which give family benefits to families with children, particularly poorer families, this can have an important impact in enabling people to keep their children in school and out of the work force."

VOA: special.2010.05.17

But this mother in North Carolina said she thought the speech could have a positive impact.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

"This political uncertainty will definitely have a very adverse impact on the tourism sector."

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

"This is having an impact on their health. It is also reducing our ability to bring other kinds of assistance, such as vaccination campaigns against polio,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

He thinks this will have a big impact on the general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

We think that there is a need, while we are treating this matter, to examine the effect, or the impact of whatever decision that will be taken on the peace process in eastern Congo."

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

What we will say is this is one of the instruments -- by reinstating the ban -- that could have a profound impact on the number and caliber of weapons going down to Mexico,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

"I am particularly concerned by the long duration of unemployment faced by a great number of workers, and the disruptive impact that this long-term unemployment has had, and will have on these workers and their families.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"They are having an impact, whether domestically or internationally, and you have got to account for it, and this is one of those break points where you stop and assess how is the administration doing?

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

The strategy includes an effort to draw attention to recent rate increases imposed on Americans by major health insurance companies, and the impact this has had on people the president has heard from directly in letters he reads each day.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

"There's really clear evidence, as there has been in the United States for example, that getting a good laboratorysystem together that can actually report this data directly to the clinicians can really impact on the accuracy, the timeliness and the use of that data."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

And today were announcing a commitment over this next decade, which we think of as a decade of vaccines having incredible impact were announcing well spend over $10 billion on vaccines, Despite the amount of the foundations pledge, Gates says its not enough to develop all the vaccines needed in the developing world.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29