In general,dead or living parts of plants need to be removed to improve the shape or growth of the plant.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

He seemed to be living the story about the writer who had sold his writing skill in order to make money.

VOA: special.2011.06.26

This week, we will tell about newly-found organisms that are said to be among the oldest living organisms on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Taos Pueblo is considered to be the oldest community in the United States that has always had people living in it.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Before his death in nineteen eighty-three, Eubie Blake was believed to be the only musician still living who had played ragtime music.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

It is for us the living,rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work for which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Or would they be voted on by the people living in them?

VOA: special.2009.04.30

It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;

VOA: special.2011.02.07

Castro says there should be a legal path to citizenship for the estimated 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Some studies have warned that half-a-million people - or about 10% of the population - will be living with HIV and AIDS by the year 2025.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

On a related issue, spokesman Rupert Colville says the situation of one-quarter of a million displaced Tamils living in internment camps continues to be of great concern.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution. "This kind of violence cannot be permanently stopped, and that we may be living with this for the rest of our lifetimes."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

The boxes soon will be sent to families living around the city.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"I kept on telling them you need to get out and explore and know these people 'cause you're going to be living here all your life, you're not going to be with the Sudanese people the whole time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17