She takes a job as a babysitter for a woman and her husband who have adopted a child of mixed race.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

John Allan never officially adopted him as a son, but the boy became known as Edgar Allan Poe.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

American writer John Grogan discovered this after he and his wife adopted a Labrador retriever they named Marley.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

In 1875, the Gardners adopted the 3 sons of Jack's brother, who had recently died.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Kaylee,we liked that name. We adopted her and in the hospital they gave her a name of Cali which we didn't like "Caroline was a name that we liked.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Security is part of a three-prong approach the Obama administration has adopted toward Afghanistan, along with political progress and promoting development.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Nine months later, Ebel's father was arrested. He remained a prisoner in his newly-adopted country for most of the war.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

AU Commissioner for Political Affairs Julia Dolly Joiner has experienced the frustration of seeing high-sounding declarations adopted and then forgotten.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

With 180 of the GA's the North Korea resolution was adopted with 97 countries in favor,19 against and 65 abstentions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

The General Assembly committee also adopted a resolution on human rights abuses in Burma, which is also known as Myanmar.

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

"The historic resolution we just adopted enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

But Enzi adopted a negative tone when he gave the Republican response to one of President Obama's recent weekly radio addresses.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"There is the initial definition by the United Nations when they adopted the genocide convention, which is considered generally authoritative.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The separate resolutions were adopted in the General Assembly committee responsible for social, humanitarian and cultural affairs known as the Third Committee.

VOA: standard.2009.11.20