Pakistani security forces largely succeeded in preventing mass demonstrations by political activists and lawyers earlier this week by blocking roads and arresting hundreds of protest leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Yes,arsenic. But not poisioning by political enemies, as in an assassination.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

More came every year. By the eighteen seventies, California's political leaders were demanding an end to further immigration from China.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Since the nineteen forties, the traditional place for political speech by American unions and companies has been through political action committees.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

The United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for independent spending by businesses and labor unions in political campaigns.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Only by gaining political power could they punish the South and guarantee full political rights to former slaves.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Then he made Conkling even angrier by appointing one of Conkling's political enemies Collector of Taxes for the port of New York.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

The president and other political leaders of the United States are elected to office by the citizens.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Now the court says the restriction on political speech violates free speech rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

It defines the crime in terms of acts by a political or military leader against another state in violation of the United Nations Charter.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

He said he was sorry for what he saw as political pressure by President Obama to force BP to set up a claims fund for victims.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

They also said it was being used by Senator Stephen Douglas for political purposes.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Populists wanted producers to have some of the political power traditionally held by non-producers.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

He was greatly influenced by the Indian spiritual and political leader, Mahatma Gandhi.

VOA: special.2009.01.16