Next year, the Chinese plan to launch a small space laboratory to practice docking of spacecraft in orbit.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

There,he discovered that the illegal practice of long-line fishing was taking place in a protected sea area.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Mister Miller found that a literate society generally tends to practice many forms of reading.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

But like many people of the day, it was a practice to snip out little mementos of events, and this particular coat suffered that same fate, in that Alfonso Don would clip pieces away from the coat and give it to people who came to visit and to see the coat.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Nasser says this divorce is a win for a growing movement in Yemen to end the practice of early marriage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

The goal of these exercises is to practice, so when a real emergency hits these crews will be prepared.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

But the United States, which is the largest provider, "is lagging a little bit behind the curve of good practice in food aid."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"So they continue to practice rituals and norms that they have inherited whereas there is a bit of move away in the urban areas."

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Robin Hodess says creating a new anti-corruption body is common practice when confronted with corruption, but that the track record of such bodies is mixed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

For instance, he says Mexican officials have no right to detain a migrant for not providing proper identification, a common practice in some parts of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Patients undergoing long-term elective surgeries are advised to donate their own blood, a practice Dr.Mwanda says accounts for a significant percentage of the hospital's surgery blood supply.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

And next year, the country is launching a small space lab to practice docking in orbit - an essential part of manned missions to the Moon and Mars.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"The very practice of dangling a toy or other premium to get kids to pester their parents to go into the restaurant and buy food,junky or nutritious, is unethical and,we believe,illegal."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Major concerns over delays in the construction of facilities, including stadium updates and practice fields at a number of the eight venues spread across the country, seem to have been resolved at the last moment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22