In two thousand eight Norway opened a so-called doomsday vault designed to be secure from any threat -- even an asteroid strike.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

Standing at the entrance of the tunnel I could see ahead of me a darkness so absolutely black it seemed a solid.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

I bent my head backward to drink in the stars, and clearly I heard a song so sweet and pure I had to hold myself to keep from breaking.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Alec Ross says one project involves a so-called panic button.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

Another possibility is to create a so-called bad bank.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

He believed in a so-called journalism of action.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

But the government now says the yuan's value will rely on a so-called "basket" of currencies and not just the U.S.dollar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

This is a product of the Libyan and, I would day, Sudanese effort to railroad a so-called 'consensus'.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

It is said the planned attack was guided by senior militants in Pakistan who hoped to mount a so-called 'spectacular' strike against the West.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Australian Prime Minister Rudd is reported to have proposed a so-called "Indonesia solution" to the problem of escalating illegal boat arrivals on Australian shores.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The president had held a so-called jobs summit at the White House this week seeking support from business and union leaders for his economic recovery efforts.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

A source of anger for many lawmakers at the hearing was a U.S.government contract for a so-called "virtual fence" monitoring system along the nearly 3200-kilometer U.S.-Mexico border.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The sides also reached a so-called "end use" monitoring agreement that would ensure U.S.military technology provided to India is not sold or otherwise transferred to third parties.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

But the acquisition of radioactive material for a so-called 'dirty bomb,' which is radioactive material that is dispersed with a conventional explosive device, that is not that challenging.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01