In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Mattel agreed to change it. That was back in nineteen ninety-two, the same year as the first Barbie for President doll.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

In the trial, two same-sex couples argue that the state ban violates equal protection rights under the United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Paul examined the bracelet and decided that he could make the same thing -- for much less.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The same breed has won that honor for the past eighteen years -- the Labrador retriever.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

And a friend of that friend was twenty-five percent more likely to do the same.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Representative Loretta Sanchez from California noted that Mexico has now deployed forty-five thousand troops -- around the same number as the United States has in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

That is the same theater where President Lincoln was shot in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

"Shipping noise falls across the same frequencies that these animals use for all their vital behaviors - for feeding,for finding mates, for avoiding predators and for navigating."

VOA: special.2011.06.29

They were looking for people who at the same time were representatives of a much bigger powerful tradition in the case of African-American music, but at the same time were really singular in their ability to express that tradition."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

And that sparse array of wires has exactly the same light absorption and electricity-collection properties as the conventional silicon wafer cell."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

And it is not even the same group, for the most part, that sheltered al-Qaida when it ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Funk says it's not the same as one-on-one counseling, but she points out that the personal approach may not always be possible or convenient.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

While some economists predict continued recovery in 2010, Baily says the only certainty is that banks are unlikely to make the same mistakes - twice.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20