Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

Still, it was a great victory for the Whig Party and a sharply felt loss for the opposing party, the Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Greece -- a popular travel place -- continues to face a debt crisis that has sharply raised its borrowing costs.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

He got high praise, too, while others who knew a thousand times more than he were sharply criticized.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

He got high praise too, while others who knew a thousand times more than he were sharply criticized.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

It had a high,sharply angled ceiling and many windows lining the walls of its one long,narrow room.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

But it said foreign language teaching in public elementary and middle schools dropped sharply in recent years.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

It can be treated when found early, but once it grows the chances of survival drop sharply.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

After Title Nine became law, the number of girls who joined high school sports teams sharply increased.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

But the number is down sharply from two thousand seven, the year before the financial crash.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

As the river flowed past Vicksburg, it turned in sharply at the base of the cliff and then continued on to the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

But now,interest rates for borrowing by troubled countries like Greece and Portugal have fallen sharply.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Also,the number of slaughterhouses in the United States has decreased sharply since the nineteen eighties.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Then,during a test of the wings, the plane moved sharply off its flight path.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

By blowing sharply into the smaller flute, a player can make three more overtones.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

When the secretary of war refused to sign the order, President Taylor answered sharply.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

But prices are down sharply now because the recession cut demand for energy.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

But the lender's chief economist also warned that "downside risks have risen sharply."

VOA: special.2010.07.09

The study found that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Few people came to listen. The next day, newspapers sharply criticized her.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

The country soon became sharply divided on the issue of silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

But once it grows the chances of survival drop sharply.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Walls of rock fall away sharply at your feet.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

But those revenues fall sharply in bad economic times.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

The trail I chose began to rise sharply.

VOA: special.2010.07.10