He said he would support reforms to let ability -- not politics -- decide who would get government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

But then she and several others from the institute decided to create their own way to support community-based science education.

VOA: special.2011.07.11

The changes are meant to support net neutrality -- the idea that all Web traffic should be treated equally.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

You really have to work at it." Junior Achievement says three hundred eighty-five thousand volunteers support its programs around the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

The study found there is strong support for restricting work by doctors-in-training to sixteen or fewer hours at one time.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

The strategy says the United States aims to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida, but also to support democracy and human rights.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

If there is a large supply of seeds, then hand-operated presses may not be enough to support a business.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The Taliban has regrouped with support from al-Qaida, which operates from safe refuge along the border with Pakistan.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

People who reached out for emotional support at the time - and received it - reported better results from the crying experience.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

So the voting continued. Finally,on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

In nineteen forty-three, George Moriarty wrote a song designed to support American forces fighting in World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.04.04

She announced her support for the vice-presidential nomination of Lloyd Bentsen at the nineteen eighty-eight convention in Atlanta.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

This frame was load-bearing, meaning that the steel skeleton would support the building's weight, not its walls.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Earlier in the week, the head of the World Bank said international support can speed progress -- "but only if coupled with real reform."

VOA: special.2011.05.27

In nineteen sixty-five, they took part in marches in Alabama to support voting rights for African-Americans.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

"Ashoka then provides those teams of young people with advisors, monetary seed funding, as well as non-monetary support to transform their idea into action."

VOA: special.2011.03.02

Liberal Democrats support the proposal for a self-supporting government insurance plan to compete with private ones.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

Micro-scholarships will support intensive language training programs for Indonesians, and for more Americans to study there.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

Mister Chavez knew that those who acted non-violently against violent action would gain popular support.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

He asked Democrats for their support in the party's presidential primary elections in nineteen sixty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

This self-serving use of religion made many Americans support the striking workers.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

And in the northeast, many middle-class people support the Red Shirts.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

Patrick Henry is most famous for a speech he gave in seventeen seventy-five to support his proposal to raise forces to defend the colony of Virginia against the British.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The Kansas-Nebraska bill had a lot of support in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Lincoln hoped Johnson would win the support of Union-loving Democrats.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Republicans and Democrats generally support high-speed rail service.

VOA: special.2011.02.11