So,the wide and narrow ring widths of the chronology that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability."

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Some organizations use the TOEIC to measure progress in English training programs and as a placement test.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

President Obama had this reaction to Thursday's report on the gross domestic product a wide measure of goods and services in the economy.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Body mass index,or BMI, is a measure of a person's weight in relation to height.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

In California, voters passed a measure to replace their primary election system, starting next year.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

But consumer confidence a measure of trust in the economy fell unexpectedly this month.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

UNICEF spokeswoman,Veronique Taveau, says her agency has set up so-called child friendly spaces in the camps as a stopgap measure.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

Pakistan's military has achieved a measure of success against Taliban militants in the Swat Valley and taken control of its main town,Mingora.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Democrats in the House of Representatives announced they had reached a compromise on just how to pay for the costly reform measure.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

But the measure has stalled in the Senate. McKibben believes that,ultimately, a price must be put on carbon.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Like a measure in the House, the $871 billion Senate bill would create new private insurance marketplaces,or exchanges, to expand choices for Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

At present,doctors cannot measure the amount of serotonin in a living baby's brain.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08