On Friday,the U.S.special envoy to Afghanistan,Richard Holbrooke,said he believes there will be less fraud this time around because only two candidates will be on the ballot and more international teams will be in place to monitor.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

I shall come at you with everything I've got, because the limelight can only shine on one of us."

VOA: special.2009.02.20

He resigned because he saw his resignation as the only way of solving a serious problem Jackson faced.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Only the very wealthy people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

A gold digger is someone who seeks to marry a rich person because he or she is only interested in that person's money.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

They urged her to become a music teacher, because they said that was the only good job for a black woman at that time.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

In its ruling, the court decided against the patent only because the idea was too abstract.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

They are the world's most innocent victims, and they suffer only because they are different."

VOA: special.2009.08.23

But that is not the only problem. Because of the recession, people are traveling less.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

It passed in the Senate only because two men from slave states voted for it.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

He had problems only because he was linked indirectly to the men who were responsible.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

And third,he could not be guilty of murder, because he had killed only in self-defense.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Because,he said, the men who created the government believed that slavery was only temporary.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Southern Whigs agreed to support Harrison only because Tyler was the vice presidential candidate.

VOA: special.2009.01.22