American government lawyers this week brought criminal charges against a young Somali man in connection with a ship hijacking earlier this month.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

Last year, two American government agencies and an international organization announced a number of policies for environmentally-friendly racing.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

They include the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor the American government gives to artists.

VOA: special.2011.01.07

In nineteen forty-two, Mister Oppenheimer joined the American government's project to develop the atomic bomb.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Opposing campaigns are accusing each other cheating. Observers from the International Republican Institute, financed by the American government, say the voting process was well organized.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

Congress had become the strongest of the three branches of the American government.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

It was established by Oklahoma State University under an American government program.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

And,she successfully urged the American government to accept the Geneva Convention.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But the American government said no.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

"Is it in our national interest to have images going all over the world of thousands of protesters burning in effigy some look alike of the American government?

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

"The way I see it,having recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, our banks now have a greater obligation to the goal of a wider recovery,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

They warned of serious damage to the American form of government if the president was removed for political reasons.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

In nineteen seventy-one, The New York Times newspaper started publishing secret government documents about American involvement in the Vietnam War.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

They were among the worst examples of dishonesty and poor government ever to take place in American history.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The objects in the exhibit tell a story about government expansion during a difficult period in American history.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

He found that the tariff was used not only to get money for the government, but to protect American industry from foreign competition.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Then,as the American Civil War began, the Virginia state government voted to rebel against the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

That was the most since the American-led invasion in two thousand one that ousted the Taliban government.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

President McKinley, without waiting for the Senate to act, ordered the American military government in Manila to extend its control throughout the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Thomas Jefferson and other early American leaders purposely designed a national government that had no established religion.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

During the eighteen hundreds, the federal government forced American Indians to live on lands called reservations.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

President Woodrow Wilson sent a team of American officials to Russia to help Kerenski's new government.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

But officials say the American ambassador in Kabul has expressed concerns because of Afghan government corruption.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

As an American soldier, he had to follow the orders of the government in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The American economy and society are starting to collapse under the influence of big government.

VOA: special.2010.06.06