"My background is a teacher. I taught young adults from, say,age eleven through thirteen for about fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

The video shows colorful and dreamy background images to provide players with a nineteen sixties feel.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

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

"What protects the lady is when the FBI does their background check, and if this guy's got a criminal record he's not going to be allowed to bring a lady here."

VOA: special.2011.02.14

Despite his Catholic background, Kennedy also became a strong advocate of abortion rights and later, a supporter of same-sex marriage.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

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

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

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

"She thought a Latina woman, someone with her background, would be a better judge than a guy like me, a white guy from South Carolina,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Nancy Pelosi talked about her background at a street-name-changing ceremony in her honor in Baltimore,Maryland.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

Critics say the national exam is biased, since it presumes a level of knowledge and cultural background that students from working class families may not have.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"We're trying to educate these people that even if they identify as Hispanic, they still come from a very rich heritage and cultural background which is their indigenous part."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

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

"President Obama, based on an earlier story,had asked that the national security team gather further information on his background, including concerns that he might have been involved the deaths of a significant number of Taliban prisoners of war a few years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17