The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Doctors used a catheter and placed two mesh tubes, called stents, into a blocked artery to help keep it open.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

He saw it as a way to keep children involved in the language and culture of their tribe.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

They had to keep the herd together day and night and protect it from bad men and Indians.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The ice is important because it helps keep the Arctic cold and reduces extremes in the Earth's climate.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Material called a growth medium is put on the joint to keep it from getting dry and to help the two plants grow together.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

"It's like a detective story. It really is. And you just keep adding on the clues."

VOA: special.2010.06.28

The government believed it would cost less money and fewer lives to keep Indians on reservations.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

And the iron monster was sunk to keep it from falling into Union hands.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

And the rate of change means it's very difficult for the classical educational programs to keep up with the demand that's out there in the marketplace."

VOA: special.2011.01.24

It's a cool style of music and I want to keep doing it."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

You want to keep spinning your mandrel so that it doesn't melt off the rod and you're going to heat your bead so that it's tacky enough to roll onto the frit and pick up pieces of the glass."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf So we must keep apart, You there,I here, With just the door ajar That oceans are,And prayer, And that pale sustenance,Despair!

VOA: special.2010.07.18

"I would be willing to do it if it was going to maintain my weight and keep my health."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30