Collecting food and medical supplies is a common tool for many Cuban-Americans to offer person-to-person assistance to people on the island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The researchers point out that gene flow between crops and their wild relatives is common and difficult to contain.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Plants with names like coast fiddleneck, common cocklebur,low larkspur and common groundsel all present risks to people or animals.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

"There is increased evidence that it helps shorten the duration of the common cold sometimes even by two to three days."

VOA: special.2011.04.20

Today,the solution to the problem is so common that it is difficult to understand that there was a problem at all.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

After that, the International Olympic Committee led efforts to create an independent agency to set and enforce common anti-doping rules.

VOA: special.2011.04.12

The gel contains tenofovir. This is a common anti-retroviral drug used to treat people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

The paddocks will need water. Some farmers design paths for animals from different paddocks to drink from a common watering place.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

He was interested in British Common Law, because his family had come to America from England many years before.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

He said the three nations are joined by a common goal to "defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

VOA: special.2009.05.09

"A common threat is 'If you leave, I'm going to report you to immigration and you'll be arrested.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

A more common way to deal with weeds is to control them enough so that the land can be used for planting.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

The film is about all the bad things that happen to a common man for no apparent reason.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

And they disliked the way Twain used the language of a common, uneducated person to tell the story.

VOA: special.2010.03.21