As she lifted it to put it in her dark hair, a few drops of liquid from the flower fell to the ground.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

He and his crews were called in to help put out fires set by the Iraqi army as it fled from coalition forces.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

As the New York Times put it, he "struggled for much of his life with his weight,with alcohol and with persistent tales of womanizing."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

As the election of 1840 drew closer, the Whig Party felt more and more hopeful that it could put its candidate in the White House.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

Flournoy says the withdrawal date is not arbitrary and Mr.Obama did not, as she put it,pull the timeline "out of a hat."

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

He said that given how interconnected the region is, Honduras can isolate, and hurt itself,in as he put it, some pretty dramatic ways.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

Black leaders who opposed the move said the station would be, as Washington Post reporter Philip Kennicott put it, one of the toxic byproducts of oppression.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

And then as they become toddlers as they started crawling around, they get that lead dust on their hands from the windowsills in the floors, they put it in their mouth."

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

"That will be restored over the next few weeks months as the policy efforts that have been put in place begin to take effect and people really see that it makes a difference.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

Clinton's telephone diplomacy capped several days of intensive U.S.efforts to help bring Pakistan, as one officials here put it, "back from the brink" of a broader crisis that some analysts say threatened the country's stability.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

In a speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama referred to the Gulf oil spill in making the case that it is time, as he put it, to "aggressively accelerate the nation's transition to a clean energy economy."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

After a briefing by U.S.Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who is in charge of the overall government response, the president said he wants people along the Gulf of Mexico to know that the government,as he put it, is in this for the long haul.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14