The director of the Harare-based Research and Advocacy Unit,Tony Reeler, says a review of investigations by numerous rights groups shows that torture and gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe have been perpetrated for decades on what he calls an epidemic scale.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

We could have gone on and studied the average at-risk population for decades and centuries.

我们本可以继续研究几百年来的,平均受危人群。

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The options are a very useful technology for managing risks and I think that we'll see a rapid--Over the next few decades, we'll see rapid expansion in the scope of options contracts traded on the exchanges.

期权是管理风险的,一个非常有用的技术,我认为在往后的几十年,交易市场上,我们将会看到期权合同的迅速发展

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Burma has been increasing pressure on Karen rebels to end decades of fighting, ahead of next year's controversial Burmese elections.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

John Lintner was a professor at the harvard Business School, who, decades ago, did a survey of people who decide on dividends and asked them, what goes on in your mind and what do you think about when you decide on dividends?

约翰·林特纳是哈佛商学院的教授,数十年前,他调查了有权决定分红的人们,问他们考虑些什么,在决定分红时会考虑哪些因素

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Censorship has been a problem in Thailand off and on for decades, even without emergency laws.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

(Speaking) Britons shivering through one of the coldest winters to hit the United Kingdom in decades got no reprieve from Mother Nature on Sunday.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been sounding the alarm on bluefin tuna for decades.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

At Notre Dame Sunday, President Obama took on the issue that has dogged his visit and sharply divided and polarized Americans for decades - abortion.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

"For decades, rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

His research began with fruit flies, but over the last two decades, his focus has been on parasitic protozoa, single-celled organisms that cause major diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"This is not only a strategic interest of the United States, it is an issue of personal importance to me, and one I have worked on for almost four decades,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Economists say India's purchase of 200 tons of gold shows that the country has come a long way in the two decades since it was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"We believe that, with the experience of Thailand handling this situation in the past two decades, where at times there were several hundred thousand came over the Thai borders this is,on one hand,serious issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

"If you contrast what is happening in this crisis to what we saw in the last major global crises of the last several decades, I think you are seeing more action now on a broader scale,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

It's all we have to go on,at the moment." Sri Lanka's military says it is on the verge of totally defeating the LTTE, which has waged a violent campaign for decades to split the island and create an independent Tamil homeland in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

But,as factory bosses are forced to offer higher pay to prevent strikes, (what does this mean for the faltering global economy?) The West has relied on cheap goods from China to help fuel the boom times of the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

China has acknowledged the need to limit its carbon emissions, but argued that greater responsibility falls on advanced industrialized nations like the United States, which produced large quantities of greenhouse gases for decades before China's rise as a global economic power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26