Pittsburgh earned eighteenth place as researchers pointed to a relatively stable economy based on higher education and health care.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

One of the pirates pointed a gun at Captain Phillips and demanded that he order the crew to surrender.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

One Confederate officer, trying to prevent his troops from moving back, pointed to a group led by General T.J.Jackson of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

One was coming at me with a huge spear, with its sharp tip pointed at my heart!

VOA: special.2010.07.10

The placement creates a longer delay between the time the left and right nostrils receive an odor than in sharks with pointed noses.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

He pointed out a line of mountains that appears from east to west in South Africa.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

But critics pointed out that world leaders made a similar promise more than ten years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

It was covered with a moving roof that kept its solar panels pointed toward the sun.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

They pointed to a report this week from the Congressional Budget Office.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

The fort was mainly a square building with pointed structures called bastions.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

But,as actors have pointed out, sometimes a critic's pan turns up gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Suddenly,a man stepped out and pointed a gun at him.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

And he pointed to a distant corner. I walked through the crowds of purchasers and salespeople, and around the counters and tables filled with goods, to the far room to the left.

VOA: special.2010.08.21

Speaking via Skype, Lubetkin pointed to a clear link between the lack of exercise and the bad health consequences of obesity.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

But she pointed to a bleak economic picture, saying recovery - when it does begin - will be slow.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10