He also proposed that Congress declare that it had no power to interfere with the slave trade between states.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

The World Health Organization will not declare an influenza pandemic unless a virus becomes widespread in at least two areas of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Earlier this year, a judge in the state of Florida was forced to declare a mistrial after eight weeks in a federal drug case.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

If you dispute this,and declare that men are still willing to serve in the army, then prove it by volunteering yourselves in large numbers.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

But a law called the Antiquities Act gives presidents the power to declare national monuments.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

It also included a ceremony to declare the Surf Ballroom a rock and roll landmark.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Presidents can declare national monuments, but Congress must act to establish a national park.

VOA: special.2011.04.11

The new law gave the president power to declare military rule in the south.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

In nineteen fifty-three, the first lady persuaded Congress to declare a National Teacher Day.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

A few members of Congress did not want to declare war against Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

There was a real danger that the South would declare its independence.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

They asked the court to declare him innocent because of insanity.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

And only Congress had the constitutional power to declare war.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08