The room has a feeling of solidity and permanence, but it also is a celebration of light and airiness.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

President Roosevelt had this painting hung in the White House as a celebration of American art and engineering.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

A local public relations man suggested a celebration of the area's once plentiful strawberry fields.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

And so,to the Germans of Pennsylvania, Saint Nicholas or Pelznickel was a man dressed in fur who came once a year with gifts for good children.Soon, people began to feel that the love and kindness Pelznickel brought should be part of a celebration honoring the Christkindl, as the Germans called the Christ child.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Then Mr.Obama heads to the French-German border for a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

President Obama called the event a celebration of Ramadan and the accomplishments of the American Muslim community.

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"I think it would be incongruous for Iranians to want to go to a celebration like that."

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Part of this summit will be a celebration, said NATO spokesman James Appathurai.

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continues to be a celebration of the profound change in this hemisphere as compared to many periods in the past when the hemisphere was marked by undemocratic governments.

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"It's also a wonderful concept to reward a woman from each of the five major regional areas in which science is being conducted around the world, in a celebration of not only women in science, but also the importance of science in a world community."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Iran is observing the thirtieth anniversary of the country's Islamic revolution with a ten-day celebration that began last Saturday.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

The National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, gives a history of the celebration on its Web site.

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The next year a women's rights leader from Germany suggested the idea of an international celebration.

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He saw ants parading around a swimming pool while he was at an Independence Day celebration.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

These have included a month-long celebration of the traditional and modern arts of China.

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President Ronald Reagan expanded the national celebration to a month-long event in nineteen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

A great Indian fireworks show takes place during the religious celebration of Diwali,every autumn.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

They held a three-day celebration in the fall of sixteen twenty-one.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

So it's not necessarily imposing other religions on them, but just kind of creating a sense of awareness in celebration of how different and diverse just within our classroom we are."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

And that's the VOA special English development report written by June Simms, tell us about the situation of women where you are and will there be a local celebration of International Women's Day?

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Usually a one-day event, the celebration continued for several days around the actual holiday.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

"The Iraqi people are rightly treating this day as a cause for celebration.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

The president's weekly address marks the Jewish holiday of Passover and Christians' celebration of Easter with a call to set aside differences and find strength on common ground.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

"It is the determination of the family to be careful and deliberate on how they plan his celebration of life because we're talking about a historic figure that really changed pop culture around the world,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

"But the most wonderful thing is that despite all those tensions, people are able to worship freely, there is such a variety of different devotion and celebration in the streets of Jerusalem, and that's the spirit that really should predominate at this time."

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