Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

No dear,Nature made you so perfectly that this small defect shocks me as being a sign of earthly imperfection."

VOA: special.2009.09.26

He decided it was a sign that he needed to make his dream of being a building designer a reality.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

And even though a great civil war was being fought, citizens of the North prepared to choose a leader.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

One reason for not cheating is that a person might fear being criticized in public for cutting in line.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Also in Kenya, a video game is being tested as another way to teach young people to avoid H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

"And what did you think of it?" "I loved the movie. Of course,being a true story made me more interested.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

said average Joe. He was being a doubting Thomas, someone who does not believe anything he is told.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

But he says being in a wheelchair is still often a problem in his neighborhood in the Bronx area of the city.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

In nineteen ninety-five at the age of fifty, she received a great deal of attention for being photographed without clothes in a magazine.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

In two thousand, then-President Bill Clinton told the world that international and private groups had identified the genetic structure of a human being.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

He said the Senate was a political body that was being asked to settle a political question.

VOA: special.2010.01.28