The order of the list is based on how corrupt a country's government is considered by a number of international organizations.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

He vetoed a number of programs that he thought interfered with rights given to the states by the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Drinking large amounts of alcohol over long periods of time has also been linked to a number of cancers.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Earlier this evening, we heard a number of bombs go sliding and slithering across, to fall several blocks away."

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The walls of water also struck a number of other nations, and killed more than two hundred thirty thousand people.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

But some farmers have used so much glyphosate that a number of kinds of weeds can now resist it.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Eighty to ninety percent of cluster headache patients have pain over a number of days to a whole year.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

He says there are a number of simple, low-cost interventions that can improve the chances of a full-term birth.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

"Spending a number of hours together in that kind of environment,I think, can only help improve the chances of bipartisan cooperation.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

She visited a number of countries and later wrote reports about how people were dealing with World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The Earharts lived in a number of places in America's Middle West when the girls were growing up.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Since the closing of the Bank of the United States, the government had kept its money in a number of state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

After a number of experimental geodesic domes were built, industry began to understand the value of the design.

VOA: special.2010.05.30