"People of African descent would escape from plantations and they received refuge Native Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Other players had a different perspective. Boyd Okwuonu is an American of Nigerian descent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Garson is among a small group of NFL players of Haitian descent.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

So it started as self-defense, but I think some operators, they realized very quickly that with piracy you can earn much more money than you can as a descent fisherman.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Abdullah,of Tajik and Pashtun descent, is backed by Tajiks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Upon descent, alarms went off telling the astronauts that the automatic guidance system was steering the lander toward a boulder-strewn crater instead of a relatively flat landing site called the Sea of Tranquility.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

"I would not get into specifics, but what I understand is that people who have been arrested are U.S nationals, but some of them of Pakistan origin, some of them of other descent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11