He says big coffee sellers like Starbucks help his business by building a base of customers who want something better.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

One time,after World War Two ended, he brought his radio show to soldiers waiting at a base in California to return to civilian life.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Ed Schieffelin used the army's Camp Huachuca as a base for his search for silver.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

And the abolitionists might use Texas as a base for propaganda against the South.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Each coral polyp releases a hard calcium carbonate skeleton that serves as a base.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

In many places, hay bales were used as a base to dump the snow on.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Bereket told reporters, pro-government Somali militias have permission to use Ethiopia as a base of operations in attacking al-Shabab rebels, who control large sections of southern Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

"I am offering all of my efforts to build a base for all people who are interested in this art, and for artists who can work in this art field."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Experts in Pakistan believe the involvement of the local Taliban in the attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan could mean more pressure on Islamabad to intensify its crackdown on militants to secure the border areas.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

That same Quinnipiac poll also found that by a margin of 59 to 34 percent, Americans believe that preventing terrorists from using Afghanistan as a base of operations is still a worthwhile goal for the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

He said the main goal must be to prevent the country from again becoming a base for terrorist attacks on the United States as it was in 2001,which he said requires preventing the Taliban from returning to power.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Conscious that a faraway and costly war doesn't play well with voters, incumbent Gordon Brown insists the troops are fighting to keep Britain safe "We have got to be clear that we cannot allow terrorists to have territory in the world that then they use as a base to attack the United Kingdom."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

In another example, pilot Edith Foltz Stearns was flying a plane to a military base in Scotland during World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

In two thousand six, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advised President George W.Bush to base a missile defense system in Europe.

VOA: special.2009.09.19