The Lisbon Treaty is intended to speed up decision-making in the EU.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

Morrison says better technologies need to be developed to speed up production.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

The European Commission's annual progress report on Turkish membership said Ankara has made some improvements on handling of human rights but said Turkey needs to speed up reforms to boost its chances of joining the bloc.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Republicans also link potential costs with what they say is the failure so far of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the $787 billion stimulus plan approved by Congress to speed up economic recovery, an assertion the president and Democrats reject.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

The rise of these births may be linked to increased use of drugs to start or speed up labor and more births by Cesarean section.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

We simply cannot do it. And so as a consequence, what I am doing is I am being briefed consistently, my national security team is fully up to speed on it.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

"Keeping everybody up to speed with what we were doing, what we were learning, what the key issues were.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

What's going on now is helping less developed countries like those in East Africa to come up to speed and be prepared for this sort of event,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

But,if the judges decide to impose counsel on Karadzic and take away his plan to defend himself, there would likely be a delay in presenting evidence until a new lawyer had time to get up to speed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26