In efforts to repress any revolutionary fervor in the past few years, Iran has deemed large gatherings of people to be suspicious.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

To avert an economic collapse, the administration moved forward with a controversial plan to bail out banks deemed too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

A Thai blogger this month received a royal pardon after serving one year in jail for posting photos deemed offensive on the Internet.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

A successful and credible election with the losers peacefully accepting the outcome is deemed crucial for Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

Out of the 5.8 million votes deemed valid so far, the incumbent has three million while the top challenger has just more than half that amount.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The effort has been deemed a foreign policy priority of the Obama administration.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

In what critics deemed well-orchestrated political theater a controversial candidate abandoned further attempts to prevent arrest and turned himself in while a rowdy crowd of supporters cheered.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Election officials say they have now processed ballots from more than one-third of polling stations nationwide and just more than two million votes have been deemed valid.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Karzai supporters say they are hoping that even after ballots deemed fraudulent are discarded the president will still have more than to avoid a runoff election with Mr.Abdullah.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Selections for the Registry, which are recommended to Mr.Billington by the National Recording Preservation Board, must be at least 10 years old and deemed "culturally,historically or aesthetically significant."

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

"We have received 2,300 complaints of which we have prioritized those complaints and over 700 have been deemed to be what we call a "Priority A' complaint, of high priority,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

A credible election is deemed crucial to the reputation of the mission by 42 nations and their 100,000 troops fighting the Taliban insurgency and attempting to preserve Afghanistan's fledgling democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Foreigners deemed guilty would be banned from entering Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Other past governments also imposed media controls. In addition, Thailand's strict lese majeste laws, aimed at protecting the revered monarchy, make it illegal to say or publish anything deemed to defame the monarchy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The ECC,dominated by appointees of the United Nations, issued the order to the Afghan government's Election Commission following hundreds of what it deemed serious complaints of ballot box stuffing and other allegations of fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

British official refuse to say on what grounds this was done, but media reports suggest his application to study at another institution was turned down because the course work there was deemed to be bogus.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

I think as the series goes on he accepts more and more that he is part of the contemporary world and I think all the things that were deemed to be flaws before start fading away.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"He will also have to reassure the Poles and the Czechs who I think are feeling a little nervous as to whether they are deemed bargaining chips and might be traded away in some efforts with the Russians.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15