It seemed as if a heavy body was thrown against the table with a force that pushed against his chest.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

This can be anything from walking or running against the resistance of water, to doing jumping jacks in the water.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

He's asleep beside the stove. When I came up from Rowe's I found him here, Huddled against the barndoor fast asleep...."

VOA: special.2011.04.17

In time,they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

"That's why we need strong rules of the road to guard against the kind of systemic risks we have seen.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

Justice Brent Benjamin now chief justice voted to overturn a fifty million dollar judgment against the Massey Coal Company.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Didn't want to go to school." Bullying is defined as negative behavior repeated over time against the same person.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

And, a treatment to suppress the body's defenses against the disease was approved to treat severe cases of MS.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

South African researchers at the international AIDS conference in Vienna,Austria have announced major progress in the fight against the disease.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Ida Tarbell's investigations into Standard Oil were partly responsible for later legal action by the federal government against the company.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

His train is unsafe. Yet he stays on the job after other workers have called a strike against the railroad company.

VOA: special.2010.09.06

With shadow puppets, the puppeteer stands behind a white cloth surface and rests the slightly see-through puppets against the cloth.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

But one of the men defending the town believed that the battle against the forces of slavery must continue.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

One argument against the comet theory is that a comet would have left a large hole in the Earth's surface.

VOA: special.2009.01.20