By including blacks, Lincoln expanded "the borders of freedom," says historian Tom Schwartz.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Brown's raid took place within the borders of a state.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

In addition, he said the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should help secure the borders of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

A prosecution witness alleged that the former Liberian president to Voinjama, had traveled on the road the main city in northern Liberia, close to the borders of Guinea and Sierra Leone, a day earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Violence between the ethnic Goula and Kara communities in the north earlier this year subsided when rebels from the largely Goula Union of Democratic Forces for Unity began fighting alongside government troops to regain control of the city of Birao, near the borders of Chad and Sudan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

The University of Illinois in the United States has a project called SAWBO -- Scientific Animations Without Borders.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

"Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders" is a documentary by movie director Mark Hopkins.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

But some groups like Doctors Without Borders said patients in field hospitals were dying because of a lack of basic medical supplies like antibiotics.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The Librarian of Congress James Billington said Stevie Wonder has crossed musical and cultural borders and given to humanity in ways far beyond entertainment.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

"Ninety-five percent of the world's customers and fastest-growing markets are beyond our borders.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

The borders on each part of the house have different edges.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

"Often the victims of human trafficking are not aware when they cross our borders that they are about to be enslaved."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

We can see a lot of trouble around our borders and we cannot distance ourselves from the geopolitics of this region.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

And he knows, and all of us know, that he is participating in the closing borders and is participating in the siege."

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

David Pred of Bridges Across Borders, a group that helps farmers, says big plantations are unsustainable because they leave many families with nothing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Lebanon accused Israel of aggression and said the army would act to defend the nation's sovereign borders.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Another fan, Henry Green of the Bronx, said Jackson's fame also transcended national borders.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

Residents and local intelligence officials in the area that borders Afghanistan say that a suspected U.S.unmanned aircraft fired the missiles near the town of Mir Ali.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Thailand has tens of thousands of refugees living in camps along its borders.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

The traditional Independence Day military parade was canceled, in wake of the mutiny a month ago by borders guards in which 75 people died, mostly army officers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Security forces are patrolling the country's borders in search of Toumba.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, whose country,along with Egypt, chaired the conference, tried to argue why the stability of the Muslim region and Sudan has implications beyond their borders.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Reports by the ethnic Karen National Union in some other areas [as well say attacks by the Burmese military started in early July in the northern Karen state of that borders Thailand.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27