And the Reverend Jesse Jackson commented in a statement about what her small act of bravery meant for African-American people.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

So,I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him as much as I could.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

So, I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him, as much as I could.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

"As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Earlier this week, he used a law called the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to target three Mexican drug organizations.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

The Senate must also act. The president wants to sign a bill into law by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

He said the world knows of her because of a single act of bravery that struck a deadly blow to racial hatred.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

So he thinks it makes a lot of sense for today's barbers to act as "health care extenders" by sharpening their skills.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

She said she did not have to act like a white woman that Hollywood hoped she would become.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

With orders from President Obama to act in such a situation, they opened fire, killing three Somalis.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

For the first time she seemed to be taking a rest from the tiring act of thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

But the force that was guiding her would not permit her to act on such a thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

A measure known as the Dream Act would put these children of undocumented immigrants on a path toward citizenship instead of possible expulsion.

VOA: special.2010.09.30

The Burma Road was a major route by which the United States was supplying China with munitions as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

VOA: special.2011.05.26