President Obama made a campaign promise to begin efforts for immigration reform in his first year in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Girls are advised to begin testing within three years of when they first have sex, or in any case no later than twenty-one.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

"By twenty twenty-five, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

Workers called "high scalers" were some of the first to begin building the dam.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Today we begin the first of two programs about the discovery of gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Today, we begin the first of two reports about singer Marian Anderson.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

The WHO authorized drug manufacturers to begin testing possible vaccines, and the first human trials began a month later.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Hargreaves says the first class of drugs could begin clinical tests in humans within the next six months.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"The first thing that we began to do is begin encounters between the Mexican health authorities and the American health authorities in order that they might interchange information regarding the situation in Mexico.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The first step uses a bit of influenza DNA to get the patient's immune system to begin fighting off the flu, and then the protection is given a "boost" some time later by the second step, which can be either another bit of DNA or a conventional flu vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21