Many experts,including David Marples with the University of Alberta, say essentially two countries led the charge to postpone Georgian and Ukrainian NATO membership.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The only thing they have to pay on that is a regular interest charge to the IMF as a fee for the conversion of the currency,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Like the Bank of England, the U.S.Federal Reserve has all but exhausted one of its most powerful tools for stimulating the economy -- lowering the key interest rate that banks charge to lend to each other.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

A week later, he pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

The first park to charge a visitor fee was Mount Rainier in the northwestern state of Washington in nineteen hundred and eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Some national parks charge visitors a small entrance fee, from five dollars to twenty-five dollars a car.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

It also bars insurance companies from using genetic information to deny coverage or charge high rates.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

Steve Hess at Moody's Investor Service says if lenders were really worried, they would raise the interest rates they charge on loans to the government.

VOA: special.2011.04.16

They were listening to an expert who is in charge of meteorites at the Smithsonian.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Customers who went to a doctor would get their next haircut free of charge.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

He began giving the cells to researchers across the country, free of charge.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Edward Yingling says it restricts the ability to price credit for risk -- in other words, to charge more for those more likely not to repay their debts.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

And from that they estimate how much they are going to charge."

VOA: special.2009.12.11

The rates they charge are tied to the number of readers.

VOA: special.2009.04.20