She was trying to gather strength and courage to push through a mass of busy shoppers.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

There is a mass of detailed work to be done.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

The word "stampede" means a mass movement of frightened animals.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Health officials say trials have gone smoothly and Australia could be the first country anywhere to start a mass immunization program.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Mr.Berlusconi attended a mass for rescuers and volunteers at a police academy in L'Aquila on Easter Sunday and complimented them for their work.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

We are all aware of that." Law Minister Veerappa Moily says India does not have a law to deal with a mass disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Braima says the international community must prepare for a mass exodus of refugees from Darfur by pre-positioning aid in Chad, the Central African Republic and areas within Sudan where people are likely to go.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"The sight of a mass murderer getting a hero's welcome in Tripoli is deeply upsetting, deeply distressing, above all for the 270 families who grieve every day for the loss of their loved ones 21 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

So if you have a mass killing of an ethno-religious group, carried out by a government in order to eliminate those people from their homeland, or to destroy their political and cultural potential - that is,by the conventional definition and most scholarly definitions, a genocide."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

For several tense minutes, the astronauts of Gemini Six were sitting on top of a highly explosive mass of rocket fuel.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

"I offer Catholic Mass,' cause I'm a Catholic priest by profession,and so it is actually the feast day of Mary,Mother of God.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

But that attempt was canceled after a storm caused a giant mass of snow to slide down the mountain, killing seven ethnic Sherpa guides.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Body mass index,or BMI, is a measure of a person's weight in relation to height.

VOA: special.2011.02.15