The report's findings were welcomed by Ergemen Bagis, the cabinet minister responsible for Turkey's bid to join the EU.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

South Africa lost this first bid to Germany by one vote, but Jordaan says that only strengthened the team's resolve.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

The victims were mostly Shi'ite muslims, in what appears to be a bid to set off further sectarian warfare.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Mr.Obama said he supports Turkey's bid to join the European Union, which faces opposition from Germany and France.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

But Eroglu supports a two-state confederation, which could negatively impact Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The biggest scandal came in 1998 when IOC members were accused of taking bribes during Utah's bid to secure the 2002 Winter Games.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

United Nations,Israeli, and Lebanese commanders met in South Lebanon in a bid to ease tensions, following the deadliest border clash in four years on Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Nigeria plans to offer inhabitants of the Niger Delta an extra 10 percent in oil and gas revenues in a bid to end the rebellion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Turkey's bid to join the European Union hinges on a peace deal in Cyprus.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Treasury chief Timothy Geithner is discussing European measures to stabilize the ailing euro currency in a bid to reassure markets the crisis will not spread throughout the eurozone.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

The RDP was formed two years ago after its leader, Hidipo Hamutenya, lost his bid to become SWAPO leader upon the retirement of Namibia's first president, Sam Nujoma.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Oil has not been sighted at the research farm yet. A few weeks after the spill, BP placed booms around it, in a bid to protect the facility.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

Saberi's father Reza, who is visiting Tehran with his wife Akiko, in a bid to win her release,sounded pleased that his daughter finally agreed to end her hunger strike.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

Iran is played host to a high-profile summit of two key war-torn neighbors, Pakistan and Afghanistan, in a bid to put an end to conflicts that rage along its borders.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

Sounds of heavy and light machine gun fire rattled Maiduguri as Nigeria's army pounded suspected hideouts of the Islamic rebels in a bid to flush out remnants of the militant Boko Haram sect.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

People have crowded onto trains, buses and ferries in a bid to carry out their travel plans - and cab companies say they are being paid thousands of dollars to ferry people across Europe by car.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

(JOSH BIRNBAUM) "Our desk began to accumulate short positions, purchasing protection on individual securities through credit default swaps, largely from external C.D.O.managers who asked us to bid for these positions."

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Others claim it represents a bid by Mr.Sarkozy's conservative UMP party to lure far-right voters for regional elections in March.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Improving the quality of the boots was a requirement to be able to bid for the military contract.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

As the tournament was kicking off, thousands of football fans turned out in Johannesburg to bid an emotional farewell to Ghana's national team.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

He campaigned to bring the Olympic Games to Madrid in 2012 and 2016 - but both times the Spanish capital lost its bid.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

In New Jersey, Democratic Governor Jon Corzine was rejected in his bid for a second term,losing to Republican Christopher Christie, a former federal prosecutor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

James Sherr,with the London-based research organization Chatham House, says there are two reasons for Russia's position, especially when it comes to Ukraine's NATO membership bid.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Mingo pointed out this would not be the first time the United States lost an Olympic bid and returned to win the support of IOC voters.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02