Just as a keystone holds together a stone arch, Pennsylvania was seen as holding together the young American republic.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The Bush administration proposed a radar base in the Czech Republic and ten interceptor missiles in Poland.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

The official returned with a treaty giving the Dominican Republic to the United States for one-and-one-half-million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Last week,President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a nuclear arms agreement in the Czech Republic.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

There are fringe events in Britain, Canada,Australia, the Czech Republic and Singapore, just to name a few of the more than eighty examples.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Then,fifty years later, a group of American businessmen ousted the ruler and established the Republic of Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

President Obama still has to decide the future of a Bush administration plan to put a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Most recently, she worked on a report about killings in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

"Actually,there were a lot of Chinese going back to the People's Republic of China at that time, ninety-thousand in one year from Fukien Province alone.

VOA: special.2011.06.10

Less than two years later, a similar financial problem arose in the Dominican Republic.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

On Wednesday,banking supervisors from the Czech Republic,Slovakia,Poland,Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary released a statement.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

One example is a telephone hotline in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

The Czech Republic is also considered in a better position.

VOA: special.2009.03.06