Over a few days, the Tunisian regime that invested billions of dollars in the security agencies, billions of dollars in maintaining, trying to maintain, its prisons, collapsed, disappeared, because of the voices of the public.

Some required billions of dollars of international support.

One or both of these agencies would then have an account with several billion dollars.

We estimate that literally billions of dollars every year are devoted to promoting this view of religion.

A few billion dollars has been recommended to fund economic aid for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Trafficking in persons has developed into a multi billion dollar enterprise.

The United States government pays billions of dollars to cotton growers, mainly in California, Texas, and Mississippi.

Estimates of the annual profits of organized criminal groups vary considerably from 3.5 billion to 10 billion annually.

During the Green Revolution of the 1940s to 1970s, billions of dollars had been spent building large scale irrigation systems.

The eight year Iran Iraq War killed hundreds of thousands and cost the country billions of dollars.

Since 2001, billions of dollars were shifted from disaster relief to homeland security and the war in Iraq. Key disaster mitigation programs were slashed and federal funding for post disaster relief was cut in half.

It is here that China is currently investing billions of dollars in mega projects like expressways, tunnels, and oil and gas pipelines.

Renewables cut air pollution, which is costing the global economy billions of dollars a year in health care costs alone.

This is the Billion Dollar o Gram, and this image arose out of frustration I had with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the press.

At last month s International Donors Conference in Brussels, they pledged billions of dollars of reconstruction aid.

So billions of dollars were poured into new developments in remote locations where nobody wants to live.

He claims that he should be rewarded as a fund manager supervising a multibillion dollar fund in the private sector.

The US gave billions of dollars of aid to rebuild war ravaged countries in Europe.

Moreover, the size of the bad debt threatening banks remains unknown, and could amount to several hundred billion dollars.

Notably, billions of dollars of public property are at stake, owing to a privatization plan designed by former President Dimitri Medvedev.

President Barack Obama s administration has thrown billions of dollars at wind, solar, ethanol, and other alternative energy resources.

If experts cannot agree that there is a climate crisis, why should governments spend billions of dollars to address it?

The Chinese government has acknowledged that the reforms were a flop, and has committed to spending several billion dollars on publicly financed health care.

By providing a few billion dollars per year in assistance now, the donor world would ensure a prosperous, democratic, and stable partner in India for decades to come.

No one knows precisely the Mexican drug cartels annual profits, but they certainly amount to billions of dollars.

Now, India s Satyam, audited by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, is found to be missing billions in cash.

During the war, it also purchased billions of dollars' worth of advanced equipment from France, the People's Republic of China, Egypt, Germany and other sources.

Libya has become a Mecca for European leaders trying to win multi billion dollar oil and investment deals.

A gigantic, ministerial level scam in the mobile telephone sector had siphoned off many billions of dollars to a corrupt politician.

Politicians have made announcements about oil phase out in Sweden, decrease of nuclear power, and multi billion dollar investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

It needs around 6 billion per year in the next three years to cover expansion of programs for the three diseases, but it has only around 3 billion per year from donor countries.

Finally, the proposed better use of the IMF s gold holdings to finance the costs of debt relief seeks to raise up to 8 billion.

Multibillion dollar investments also flowed into new wind farms, geothermal plants, and a host of other renewable energy technologies.

Commercial institutions like banks also bought billions of dollars of bonds and other treasury paper, holding more than 24 billion at the war s end.

Due to its superior infrastructure relative to Senegal, Ghana has attracted many billions of dollars more in foreign investment and records much higher trade volumes.

Yet by spending just 10 billion annually, the United Nations estimates that we could help 229 million hungry people today .

The oil rich kingdom pledged billions of dollars for aid and investment, signed a bilateral accord to establish an industrial zone in Egypt, and announced a series of agreements between the two countries.

The armed conflict that had raged between the Frente POLISARIO and Morocco from 1975 to 1990 had not resolved the problem, any more than the deaths of thousands of innocent people and the billions of dollars that had been spent so far.

The second thing we need to do is while we're spending billions and billions of dollars all over the world building an electronic health record, we make sure we put a place history inside that medical record.

Just recently, after the World Trade Organization ruled in favor of a European complaint, the US Congress had to rewrite billions of dollars of tax legislation.

I agree with this goal, and have devoted the last fifteen years of my life and several billion dollars of my fortune to attaining it.

The People s Republic has invested billions of dollars in Afghanistan, including a 3 billion payment for rights to mine copper at Mes Aynak.

And therefore, the standard process, where you develop a molecule, put it into mice, into men, are not yielding those results the billions of dollars that have been spent.

I'm very sorry if you have the flu, I know it's horrible, but we're not going to spend billions of dollars trying to reduce the duration of your flu symptoms by half a day.

But, despite these projects reported billion dollar price tags and high expectations, the investments have catalyzed little progress, owing partly to security issues.