It is the first time that the world's biggest sports event will be held in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Congressional elections will be held in November, and Republican gains are likely.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Next year,the solar decathlon will be held in Madrid,Spain.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

The negotiations would be held in Paris.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

The next International AIDS Conference,the 18th, will be held in Vienna July 18th through the 23rd.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

This was the first Summit of the Americas to be held in a Caribbean nation, and was notable for a virtual absence of protesters.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

There have been concerns expressed that a run-off election cannot safely be held in the coming weeks because of security threats and oncoming winter weather.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

If no candidate receives more than half of the total votes a run-off between the two top contenders is to be held in early October.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

The event is to be held in New Delhi in October next year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Next month,global climate change talks will be held in Copenhagen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Although he is focusing on specific cases of possible police misconduct, Nick Hardwick said there is a great need for a much larger debate to be held in the country regarding the correct balance between security and liberty.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

When they were tired or wanted to be held they cried out in tiny voices and reached up with their little arms.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The lack of snow will not be a problem for events being held at the ski area in the city of Whistler.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Nils Bohlin recognized that both the upper and lower body needed to be held securely in place.

VOA: special.2011.03.01

For example, working women used to be shown mostly as nurses or teachers, because those were the jobs that many held in real life.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

The Olympics events will be held at several places in and around Vancouver.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Many senators are worried that the 240 detainees held there could be transferred to prisons in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Hatoyama is expected to be formally elected prime minister in a special session of parliament, which must be held within 30 days.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

But they say future exercises will be held off the west coast -- in the Yellow Sea.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

It was the first time the world's largest AIDS gathering was held in a developing country and it changed the way future conferences would be held.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

President Zuma responded by thanking the FIFA president for his unwavering support in the face of those who doubted the event could be held successfully in Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Special masses to remember the victims were also to be held later Saturday in Poland, a heavily Catholic nation, including in Warsaw and the city of Krakow.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10