Other officials point to the several alarms sounded about preparations before the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece, which were staged successfully.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The training was staged to be as realistic as possible and the soldiers did not know what would happen next.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The red shirts accuse the government of being backed by the military that staged a coup against Thaksin in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

Lawmakers smashed open doors and staged a weeks-long sit-in to prevent votes related to the deal earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

That is a complicated and several-staged argument that is not believable by most people in this country."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Terre'Blanche's group, known as the AWB, opposed ending apartheid and staged bomb attacks in the years leading to the country's first democratic elections in 1994.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

He also selected props and costumes, staged the scene lit it and photographed it.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Democrats also staged a news conference at which physicians and nurses, as well as Democratic lawmakers who are doctors,spoke in support of the health care reform effort.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Responsibility was claimed by the Sunni Muslim militant group Jundallah, which said it staged the attacks to avenge the execution in June of the group's leader for terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Opposition leader Georgy Khaindrava told VOA the army uprising was carried out in the finest tradition of Soviet Bolsheviks, who applauded themselves for solving problems they themselves staged.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

Similar demonstrations all were also staged in Berlin and Paris Saturday where marchers wanted to get their message across to their leaders before they head off to the summit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Health care activists who favor a more comprehensive approach to reform staged their own protest outside the Capitol, complete with signs and even a special song for the occasion.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The Afrikaaner Resistance Movement, know as AWB, sought to maintain white dominance in apartheid South Africa and staged bomb attacks as the country prepared for its first democratic elections in 1994.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Despite the nature of the election, staged under a violent backdrop, Miliband said he felt it was still possible to have a final result that the people of Afghanistan can have confidence in.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

U.S.officials, including the number-two American commander here, Army Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby, say such occasional spectacular attacks are,in a way, evidence of the decline of al-Qaida in Iraq, which once staged dozens of attacks every day.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Officials in Georgia say troops at a tank battalion at the Mukhrovani base about 30 kilometers from Tbilisi staged a rebellion aimed at overthrowing the government and also disrupting Wednesday's start of NATO military exercises in the republic.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05