But they could not prove their charges, and their effort failed by one vote.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

OSSIE DAVIS: "Baseball should be taken seriously by the colored player -- and in this effort of his great ability will open the avenue in the near future wherein he may walk hand in hand with the opposite race in the greatest of all American games -- baseball."

VOA: special.2009.04.05

"What is necessary in this case is a collective effort, not only by the researchers and the people on the ground, but also the donor community, because controlling those two diseases can go a long way in improving people's food security and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa."

VOA: special.2009.09.21

In a secret assessment published by The Washington Post Monday, General Stanley McChrystal says he needs more forces and,without them, the effort faces possible failure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Republicans and Democrats expressed identical concerns that by engaging in negotiations, Iran may be playing for time in an effort to move ahead with weapons-related enrichment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Kites was the first big-budget effort by the Hindi film industry to make a movie which would appeal to mainstream audiences in India and in Western countries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

He says the U.S.military is making every effort to meet the priorities set by the Haitian government and the United Nations to determine which flights are allowed to land.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

This is the time of year when we see usually an effort by the insurgents to knock us of course and to try and attack the coalition and indeed the government of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The strategy includes an effort to draw attention to recent rate increases imposed on Americans by major health insurance companies, and the impact this has had on people the president has heard from directly in letters he reads each day.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

He said it would take longer to convince Afghans that the insurgency is going to fail, because they have been disappointed by the international military effort so far and because many view their government as inconsequential or corrupt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

So we thought that it's timely, especially that this year, there was a great effort by UNAIDS invested in the region to ensure that all the countries will actually report and live up to their commitments made to the 2001 Declaration in the U.N.General Assembly Special Session on HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"And this fired my imagination. I thought,'My gosh, we could do something like that.'" Sir Clem Renouf, then president of Rotary International, convinced Rotarians across the globe to unite against the disease by raising money to fight the virus and by volunteering their time toward that effort.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02