Throughout the more than year-long preparatory process, FIFA reports indicated that the Nigerians were well behind schedule in assuring that the proper infrastructure would be in place to host the event.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Those estimates put the country behind western Europe as well as countries like Albania, Chile and Tunisia.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

His Labor government is lagging far behind the opposition Conservatives and the war may very well be someone else's responsibility in just over half a year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The ruling March 14th coalition accuses Syria of being behind the slaying of former Prime Minister Hariri, as well as a number of other top politicians and journalists, who were Syrian opponents.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

From its new regional bureau in Yaounde, Interpol is moving to break-up the syndicates behind this organized crime by working with law enforcement officials in Cameroon,Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon as well as officials from the other countries it covers: Central African Republic, Chad,Congo,Sao Tome and Principe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09