"It's difficult to say what the reasons are." "It has happened with spare parts for important medical equipment for hospitals.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

She was nine years old at the time. She remembers her mother on her knees, begging French police to take her but to spare her children.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

The World Health Organization is renewing its appeal to the Israeli government to allow necessary medical equipment, spare parts,and repair crews to enter the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Medical equipment and spare parts must be available and be properly maintained."

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The U.S.military is buying more than 6,000 of the M-ATVs, at a cost of nearly a million and a half dollars each, including all their equipment, spare parts and transportation to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"Sanctions have had a real effect on the performance of our industries, mining manufacturing, we can't get spare parts, we can't get credit lines and we are blocked in regard to aid from the World Bank and IMF."

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Since all 40 Republicans were on record as opposing the bill, the Democrats did not have a single vote to spare, needing every Democrat and Independent who normally votes with Democrats to cast their votes for it, or else have the vote dead before it ever reached the floor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23