In nineteen ninety-one, Donald Graham replaced his mother as publisher and the chief official of The Washington Post Company.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

He saw outsider artwork as being free from the worries of competition and social acceptance that define the official art world.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

As a result,in nineteen sixty-nine, the church removed Saint Valentine's Day from its official worldwide calendar of Catholic feasts.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Gist said South Carolina would call a state convention as soon as the election results were made official.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

A green card is an official document identifying a person as a permanent resident of the United States.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

As one Project planning committee official said, the Census of Marine Life has enlarged the known world.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

Also this week, the Obama administration named a former Justice Department official as so-called border czar.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

For almost ten years before that, the archeologist had served as chief antiquities official.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

And the railroad would cross lands already organized as states or official territories.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

At one Apple store in central London, staff chanted and cheered as they counted the seconds to the official launch.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

While the top police official gained some unexpected supporters, there was criticism as well from various sectors of society, including separatists.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

The U.S.official said several UNASUR leaders detailed what they see as a long history of U.S.intervention in their countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

Although thousands of people now identify as Taino, the tribe has yet to receive official government recognition or the federal benefits that accompany it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Has Britain replaced the United States as the "Great Satan" in official Iranian eyes?

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Gil Kerlikowske is the top U.S.drug control official, commonly known as America's drug czar.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

"Stop the panic," Russia's top official for agriculture commanded Russians on Friday as the nation faced a fourth week of baking hot temperatures more normally associated with North Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

One French official is quoted as saying international efforts are about "helping" Haiti, not "occupying" the country, inferring that the United States is assuming too much control over the operation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

The Interfax News Agency quotes an unnamed Russian security official as saying as many as 20,000 police and servicemen could be withdrawn from Chechnya with the end of the counterterrorism operation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

The final preliminary numbers have been held up because of what the government-run Independent Election Commission describes as "technical problems" with the official forms for the remaining untabulated two percent of ballot boxes.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury official leading the pay review, says the executives' salaries will be cut by as much as 90 percent, and their average total compensation will drop by about half, starting in November.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

The same official termed as "disgusting" the hero's welcome the Gadhafi government gave to convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was released from prison by Scottish authorities on Thursday because he suffers from terminal cancer.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

A WHO official in Jerusalem says the agency believes Israel is reluctant to allow certain items, such as batteries and electronic equipment into Gaza because it considers those items could potentially be used for military purposes.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

A senior Obama administration official who briefed State Department reporters said if the coup is not reversed within 72 hours, as the regional body demanded late Tuesday, it would clearly mean the expulsion of Honduras from the OAS.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

"The detainees were kept naked for weeks, months at a time - kept in very small cells, whose temperatures were kept artificially low, sometimes to the extent that the naked detainees, as one official said,seemed to turn blue,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

North Korea's official Rodung Sinmun newspaper described the country as a "proud nuclear power" Monday, and warned it would be a "great mistake for the United States to think it will not be hurt" in the event of military conflict on the peninsula.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22