(Applause) Barbara Jordan considered herself a teacher first,above all else.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

He stands above a heap of shattered concrete and twisted metal on a windswept hillside in Arab East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

With the singer's golden casket in front of the stage, Pastor Lucious Smith said Jackson was, above all,part of a loving family.

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

Johnson says that the Buffalo Soldiers learned to keep their tempers under control, because if they didn't rise above a conflict, they'd be court-martialed and lose their jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

And finally, we need a relationship with its neighbors, above all with Pakistan, in which all recognize that Afghanistan has got to be a neutral state not a client state,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"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

Experts say the ability to take up lead is reduced when the pH level is above six and a half.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

If several of these conditions are present at the same time, a person's body temperature may rise above safe levels.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

A man who loses his job tries to keep his head above water until he finds a new job.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

On May third, the Cumberland River measured almost sixteen meters, more than three and a half meters above flood stage.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

But to really experience this ocean world, you can enter a tunnel and watch the fish swimming above you.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The shell dropped and exploded above Fort Sumter, a United States military base on an island in the harbor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

As he later described it, the plane was not much more than half a kilometer above the trees.

VOA: special.2009.11.24