Republicans say the budget is too big and that the proposed tax increase on the wealthy would hurt small businesses.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

I hope you've gotten something out of this on a way to increase calm, equanimity and connection to the world around you.

希望你从中能有所得,能变得更平和，更镇定,增强与周围世界的联系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Recently, in the Czech Republic, there was a proposal to increase the excise tax on smoking.

最近，捷克共和国，有一个增加香烟消费税的提案。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

One way to raise the average fuel economy is to increase the number of electric cars on the road.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

It was just part of the new President Bush's plan to increase the conforming loan limits on Fannie and Freddie to allow them to lend at a higher price.

小布什总统的政策之一就是,增加房利美和房地美的贷款限额,以便让他们可以在高房价下继续贷款

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The National Council on Teacher Quality is a research group that works to increase the number of effective teachers.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

I think it's kinda...you do it to both but right now, tax increase in 2011, 2012, 2013, etc. as what's on the books would be very bad for the economy.

双管齐下当然不太现实,但目前来看，要是从2011年开始，按照经济理论，而一直往后增税的话,对经济可谓百害而无一利。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Experts say the new methods also increase crop production up to five times more than crops that depend on rainfall only.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

And the electrical energy is the product of the charge on the electron times the voltage which is the potential difference through which the electron was accelerated. And so this allows me to, by increasing the voltage, increase the energy on the electron.

电子能量是电子上的电荷数,乘以电压的结果,这是种内在的差距,通过它电子运动得以加速，这也让我，通过增强电压，来增加电子能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So the voting continued. Finally,on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

These proposed putting an end to the independent treasury, the establishment of a new national bank, and a tax increase on imports.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The United States Department of Agriculture will increase spending on farm emissions research by ninety million dollars over the next four years.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

One of his promises was to fight a fare increase on what was known as the M.T.A.subway system.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The findings suggest that thinning during the on-crop year can increase the value of off-year pecan crops.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

It would also increase investor protections and let shareholders vote on the pay of top company officials.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

On Thursday,the Security Council approved a resolution to increase efforts toward a world without nuclear weapons.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

She says the increase in income has a huge effect on the whole community as well.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

They say that some states have lowered their standards in order to increase student scores on tests required by the No Child Left Behind Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

He and former American President Jimmy Carter worked with the Sasakawa Africa Association to help increase the quality and production of corn on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

She urged the movement to try to increase its influence on American political life.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

But recently there's been an increase of retaliatory attacks by people on the other side, including a slightly mysterious group called the Invisible Commandos who've been operating against Gbagbo."

VOA: special.2011.04.02

"The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

But first,the government needs to hammer out its plan on how to spend the money to increase Internet access.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

He also led an intensive effort to increase African-American representation on the boards of America's largest corporations.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Analysts blame the sharp increase on the turbulent national elections and a re-emerging Taliban facing a surge of U.S.troops, determined to take the provinces.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

The result has been some progress on the ground, but also a sharp increase in U.S.casualties, with more than in just the last three months.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri summed up the fallout if temperatures increase.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

But the increase in obesity has had a disproportionate impact on Americans' health and longevity.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The government has also submitted legislation that would increase the excise tax on beer by an average of 50 percent per year from 2010 to 2012.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

A economists say higher food prices will only increase the problems faced by the region's poor, who are highly dependent on rice as a staple food.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17