"I've decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The Obama administration says it counseled the Karzai government against allowing the return of General Dostum, whose reputation threatens to cast a pall over the country's critical election process to which the United States has lent heavy support.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

There was a pile of bodies next to that. Just to my left, we're passing another area where a number of bodies have been piled, many of them have just been cast aside, some of them are covered in sheets of plastic.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

Then,a hard cast may be put around the area of the break to hold the bone in place while it heals.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

In some cases,instead of a cast, a splint made of plastic or metal will be secured over the area to restrict movement.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

If you think elbow and knee pads might be restrictive,try wearing a cast.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

But when I saw that in the contributions he made, that cast him with me in a different light."

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

He says this book gives a voice to people who society has cast off.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Five years ago,he won 96 percent of the ballots cast, following a popular movement known as the "Rose Revolution" that forced the resignation of the incumbent, Eduard Shevardnadze.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

That situation has created much speculation about whether James will take his talent elsewhere in search of a better supporting cast to help him win an NBA crown.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

He credits the writers for much of the show's appeal. ""Lost" seems to me the best and most successful and logical use of a multicultural cast on television,seems organic."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Some 3.5 million votes were cast for favorite questions on a variety of topics, including unemployment, the federal budget, the country's financial stability, home ownership, health care and education.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

She both loved and respected Horne, who was the first African American to land a major Hollywood contract, at a time when blacks were cast only in subservient roles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

But climate change skeptics have seized on the recent theft of thousands of private e-mail messages from computer servers at a British climate research center to cast doubt on whether global warming is as serious as it has been made out to be.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

A cast that includes Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg,Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg,John Travolta, Billy Dee Williams, and Jackson's chimpanzee Bubbles, all wonder where the pop star is until he reveals in the final scene that he has been above them filming the video all along.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Final results from Mauritania's electoral commission show former General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz winning more than half of the ballots cast making him president without a second round of voting in which his main political opponents had vowed to unite against him.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

Since all 40 Republicans were on record as opposing the bill, the Democrats did not have a single vote to spare, needing every Democrat and Independent who normally votes with Democrats to cast their votes for it, or else have the vote dead before it ever reached the floor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23