A big increase is expected this year because of the economic crisis, combined with higher food prices.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The slower speed is combined with an extra effort to make the writing easy to understand.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

To prevent this from happening, levodopa can be combined with other substances, like carbidopa.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

These are combined with evaluations written by the students themselves.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The most commonly used drug is levodopa combined with carbidopa.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

Below freezing temperatures combined with compacting snow has meant traffic chaos for drivers in Germany, Poland and elsewhere.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Critics say that a growing Taliban insurgency across Afghanistan combined with an increase of thousands of new foreign troops has intensified fighting in Afghanistan leading to more civilian casualties.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

He said that combined with strong international support from donor countries, supportive non-governmental organizations and an improved security situation should all contribute to a better future for the country's nine million citizens.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

John Lewis combined classical music with traditional jazz to create songs for himself and the three other members of his quartet.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel combined rock and roll with folk and pop to create their sound in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Mister Lewis also combined written music with music that the group invented as it went along.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

She combined this research with observations and examples from her own life.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

The performance combined dance with song and theater.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

In this study, Hamer and his colleagues combined measurements of tobacco exposure with interviews focused on mental health issues.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

(SPEAKING) Moussa says the combined approach helps guarantee settling conflicts, especially ones with poverty among its sources.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Sarah Olson at the University of Wisconsin used satellite data to assess loss of forests and combined that with government surveys of malaria cases.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

This is the story of how one man combined LEDs with solar energy technology to bring high-quality, low-cost electric light to poor people around the world.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

With Nordic combined athletes limited to as few as five jumps a week, Demong said being a more experienced athlete helps him maintain the focus to compete.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a lack of social interactions ranks right up with smoking,obesity, and alcoholism as a risk factor for death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

He is replacing it with a plan that would provide a combined land- and sea-based capability more quickly, focused on shorter range missiles Iran could use to threaten Europe, with the option of expanding later to cover longer range missiles if necessary.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23