Over the past four years he traveled around the world with recording equipment and video cameras in an effort to unite people through music.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

"Paleontologists are telling us every season they're coming with stones and bones that catapult us back into the nebulous past."

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

And,it would be a shame to lose that sort of sense of the past, that sort of connectivity with the past.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The company sold nearly in the past year,he says, and more than 100 million Happy Meals with Apple Dippers since 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Minister of Information Louise Mushikiwabo says many Rwandans struggle with the conflict between the past and the future."

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

"In the past,I was so accustomed to teaching math the traditional way and now with the way it's introduced, I can see it."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

But at an event at the White House with past and present American Olympians, the president made clear his support for Chicago's bid is strong.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The LDP's popularity has fallen sharply in the past few years as it struggled with a weak economy and the aftermath of several corruption scandals.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

". At Friday's opening ceremony, several leaders noted past grievances with the United States while also expressing hope for a more productive and respectful relationship under President Obama.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

He's also friendlier on the track than many of the past champions think American Carl Lewis and Canadian Ben Johnson, who tried to intimidate opponents with their dagger-like glares.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

In a rare meeting with Republican Party lawmakers Friday, President Barack Obama decried the partisan politics of the past and urged both parties to work together on creating more jobs for Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

But own the podium, with athletes who have been there, done that,um and then giving their advice and support over the past few years, that has been probably been as important as the financial."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

But he stressed the United States must combine its military might that has damaged al-Qaida during the past several years with other tools, such as diplomacy and development aid, as well as expand human intelligence to defeat an adaptable enemy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

"In this case we have a Pakistani group that in the past would have targeted Pakistanis or maybe Americans in Afghanistan and now because of its affiliation with al-Qaida says, let me target Americans in New York City."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

We came up with a back story between the two of us about what things had gone on in the past and why she was so dedicated to him, so loyal and hurt for him so badly."

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

"I think the most frequent type of attack that has been occurring in the past is people showing up with Molotov cocktails and throwing them into or at the homes of Roma in several towns of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27