Even if that could be done, there was the question of what to do with the freed slaves.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

He said no one knew why this had happened, but there was nothing that could be done.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

He hoped that could be done slowly, during peacetime.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He could not. Nothing could be done, except wait.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Other people said it could be done.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

Two years ago,as Philadelphia faced a staggering number of home foreclosures,city officials, lender attorneys and homeowner advocates sat down to see what could be done.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Activists from several civic groups held a roundtable at Moscow's Independent Press Center to discuss the extent of Russian corruption and what could be done about it.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

Sanchez says many things could be done to promote tourism on Santiago.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"The reasons that we went to Afghanistan in 2001 are still the reasons we are there, that we are trying to protect the streets of Britain from al-Qaida and from the supportive work that could be done on their behalf by the Taliban both in Pakistan and Afghanistan,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Much work had to be done before Project Mercury could put an American astronaut into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

VOA: special.2011.07.06

It was agreed this could be more easily done with the aid of a dam.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

This had to be done so the floor of the dam could be built.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

His men had done all that could be expected of them.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Throughout his life, Borlaug was a firm believer that the job of feeding the world could not be done without chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Though election officials are still working toward a November 29 poll, observers fear there is still too much work to be done and scrambling to make the deadline could result in a flawed vote.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

"This will be the subject of a full investigation. If there is any evidence that any government agency could have or should have done better, we will certainly be taking all relevant action to address that,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

They look at you as if you're phony. I also think as an actor, you want to be able to play many parts, and if you have so much surgery done that you could only look a certain way, you're limiting the parts you're going to play."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22