"In the end,schools ought to do what's the right thing for their students, first and foremost."

VOA: special.2010.10.07

"You train,you raise money. So you walk twenty miles your first day, you sleep in a tent, you wake up I got to do this again?

VOA: special.2009.11.02

"One of the great traditions that I really appreciate here at First Congregational is that we do an annual service of 'Nine Lessons and Carols,' which is in the old King's College tradition from England.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

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

In his first days in office, he signed an order to do so, and appointed a task force to look into details.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

"That's the way they do it down in Nashville. At first,I kind of balked at it.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

For any tourists who do cross the bridge into Mexico, the heavily armed men in blue masks are among the first sights they see.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

"And as it turns out, most people do that planning in the first quarter.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

"Seeing him from riding a horse to being at home sitting in a chair, where all that he can do puzzles first 500-piece puzzles, then 200-piece puzzles and then 100-piece puzzles;

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"Whenever a country imposes rules on business that hurts the business that makes it less appealing to consumers, there's a risk that,first of all, the businesses that do operate in the country will suffer.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

"The first thing that we began to do is begin encounters between the Mexican health authorities and the American health authorities in order that they might interchange information regarding the situation in Mexico.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

I don't recall what I gotfor my first Christmas, and I don't know when I went onmy first outdoor picnic, but I do remember the first time I heardthe sweetest voice in the wide world.

VOA: standard.other

The military plan is that we will have to do a rescue operation because now we have to rescue the civilians first, in order to go for the rest of the LTTE cadres hiding in that area,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.06