"It kind of happens in the background, because I have an iPhone which I love.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He's got a full-feathered headdress. Or he's sitting cross-legged with his moccasins and a bow and arrow and a tepee in the background type of thing."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

a girl balances on one leg, holding her foot and glowering at a blushing boy, while another young couple dance in the background.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

During the exercises, military observers stay in the background taking notes with suggestions for improvement.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

There is also a scene of a banner with an American flag in the background and the New York City skyline with the destroyed World Trade Center twin towers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

He tells these teenagers the key to being an astronaut is having a solid background in math and science.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The event has added symbolism this year, coming against the background of Israel's rejection of demands by the United States to stop building in disputed East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21