Until Texas became a state, almost all national leaders seemed to accept the idea that Congress did have this power.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Almost all of the sculptures in the garden were made from limestone from the state of Indiana in the Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Two states reject the idea. Critics say that working toward the same standards in every state will not guarantee excellence for all.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

The New York State Thruway has been backed up all the way from the George Washington Bridge.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

In the American political system, whoever wins the most popular votes in a state usually gets all the electoral votes of that state.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

In the American presidential system, whoever wins the most popular votes in a state usually gets all the electoral votes of that state.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

He led his team to state championships all four years he was a student there.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

And he ordered the state flag raised over all other federal property in the city.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

It said all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States and of the state in which they lived.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Today we will visit four of them -- all in the state of Utah.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

at General Eisenhower's headquarters,General Jodl, the representative of the German High Command and of Grand Admiral Doenitz, the designated head of the German state, signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land,sea and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Forces, and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command."

VOA: special.2011.06.16

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08