Her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton, was a great supporter of women's rights issues including the right to birth control.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Still, it was a great victory for the Whig Party and a sharply felt loss for the opposing party, the Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

"We have no choice," he said, "as to whether or not we will play a great part in the world.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Poor Billy! A bullet came out of the sky one day and tore a great hole in Billy's chest.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

And I think that Nancy's great sense of, you know,fighting for justice and helping others was a great inspiration."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

You can spend a great deal of time making an object only for it to break in the kiln.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Sometimes her pictures made you feel you were looking down from a great height, or up from far below.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

"Marmaduke" is a film about a Great Dane and his human family who move to California from the Midwest.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

"People made friends more. I noticed that people would sit with strangers and have conversations, so that was a great thing.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

From time to time, Union officers would ride up the hill to report what a great victory their troops were winning.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Professor Auerbach describes how the evolution of vampires tells a great deal about a culture's fears, which change over generations.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

He said the United States must build up its sea power,too, if it wanted to be a great nation.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Yet the situation did cause a great deal of tension while the nation waited to see if Garfield would survive.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

One movie shown at the National Building Museum is called "Designing a Great Neighborhood: Behind the Scenes at Holiday."

VOA: special.2009.03.25