President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called "America's first Pacific president."

VOA: special.2009.11.21

She was about 50 years old. Her white hair was pulled back from her small, tired face.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

She was about fifty years old. Her white hair was pulled back from her small,tired face.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

After several more drying steps, the paper is carefully lifted back from the mold.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

But President Obama says "we have stepped back from the brink."

VOA: special.2009.05.29

"Every time I come back from the Middle East, my American friends would say, 'What were you doing in the M.E.?'

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

"I came back from that really shaken up. I started to think about how the oceans are having a hard time.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held back from major diplomatic sanctions, other than recalling Turkey's ambassador.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

South Korean Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo says North Korea has stepped back from a strident demand it made earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Back from their recent mission, Satcher and Melvin are trying to encourage these black students to think about careers in the U.S.space program.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"But taken together,this bold, persistent experimentation has brought our economy back from the brink.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

"I think the really dangerous affect of this is you have agency officers stepping back from the kinds of things that the nation expects them to do,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

And I believe we pulled the economy back from the abyss." To combat a crippling credit freeze, central banks slashed interest rates and pumped cash into credit markets.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

On the other end of the stalled air route are passengers like Nemo Kim, a news anchor for an international broadcaster in Seoul, who cannot get back from London.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19