The Republican governor proposes to end collective bargaining rights for most public employees except on the issue of wages.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

In the end, they are permitted to meet just once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

But instead of going to prison, she was permitted to seek treatment to end her dependence on drugs.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Behind her,in the little room over the porch, a tiny clock ticked loudly on its shelf near the end of the bed.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

At the end of the day, musicians on both sides would play to raise the spirits of soldiers.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

They plan to continue working on it until the end of October when it will be taken apart.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

They got back on the train and keep going until they reached the end of the line.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

Delegates from around the world have agreed on a new plan to end the worst kinds of child labor by two thousand sixteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

But some environmental groups say it should be made permanent to end the nation's dependence on oil.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

By the end of its first week on the market it had sold two million copies.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

In eighteen sixty-one, the American Civil War put an end to steamboat traffic on the Mississippi.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Still,the National Network to End Domestic Violence says programs across the country served more than sixty thousand victims on any average day last year.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Glassblowing involves gathering hot liquid glass on the end of a metal pipe called a blowpipe.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

I lighted my lantern, and found that I was perched on a narrow ledge, almost at the end of my rope literally and figuratively.

VOA: special.2009.12.07