They would put out sacrifices of food and light fires to keep the spirits from doing any harm to the living.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

This can be anything from walking or running against the resistance of water, to doing jumping jacks in the water.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

From an early age, Aleck liked to make new things and find new ways of doing work.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

It accused the colonial government, for example, of not doing enough to protect ships from pirates.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Then she got up from the floor and came to find out what I was doing.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She knew what she wanted to do. No one could stop her from doing it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

There was nothing that could stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Otherwise,he says, there is no way to prevent them from doing this again to his children or his grandchildren.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

And we remain committed to doing all we can to try to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

One,it encourages more people to come illegally. Two,it discourages people who might have gone back to their homeland from doing so."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

He says President Obama has to prevent Israel from doing this kind of thing, and not to protect or cover up for Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

And one day, outof the blue clear sky, I got a letter from Jenny wondering if I couldcome down to Savannah and see her, and that'swhat I'm doing here.

VOA: standard.other

He told a gathering in Washington recently the alliance is doing important things to ensure its security from conventional threats and from new ones like terrorism, piracy and cyber attacks.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

Meanwhile,the House Financial Services Committee took a step to make it easier for U.S.state governments and individual investors to divest from Iran, removing the threat of lawsuits for those doing so.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

The peace dialogue had lowered tensions between the rivals, but has flagged amid repeated Indian accusations that Pakistan is not doing enough to clamp down on terror groups operating from the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"The things that we're doing to lock down special nuclear materials, the things that we're doing to reduce the number of nuclear weapons helps go to preventing that from ever occurring again."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06