The study involved forty-four traders and their profits and losses over a twenty-month period ending in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

On December tenth, eighteen ninety-eight, the United States and Spain signed a treaty in Paris officially ending the war between them.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And he urged a national policy to start ending slavery everywhere -- peacefully.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The resolution said simply that the people of South Carolina were ending the agreement of seventeen eighty-eight in which the state had approved the Constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

They are about finding never-ending love.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

In May,Sri Lankan forces soundly defeated the rebel terrorist group, ending 27 years of war that cost tens-of-thousands of lives.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

sanctions resulting from the launch will deal a fatal blow to six-nation talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

Ellington made five of his first six shots, including a three-pointer before ending the night with 20 points.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

Sudan's elections were agreed to as part of a 2005 peace deal ending a two-decade-long civil war, during which an estimated two million people died.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

The six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programs have been stalled for more than a year, because of a boycott by Pyongyang.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

aerospace industry than will be lost with the ending of the F-22 program.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Ending a 15-year ban, a new state law allows concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns into restaurants that serve alcohol, as long as they do not drink.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Mr.Gadhafi demanded an apology for the so-called unjustified arrest of his son and daughter-in-law as the price for letting the Swiss nationals return home and for ending economic sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

One of the issues expected to be high on Mr.Wen's agenda is whether North Korea will return to the six-party talks, which are aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Mr.Reinfeldt,whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said the creation of the power-sharing government in Zimbabwe was an important step forward but added that obstacles still remain to ending the sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"They have also shown how bacterial ribosomes can be stopped dead in their tracks by various antibiotics, thereby providing insights that help researchers design new drugs to be used in our never-ending fight against bacterial infections,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

"We continue to call for Russia to abide by the August 2008 cease-fire commitment signed by President Saakashvili and President Medvedev, including ending the occupation and withdrawing Russian troops from South Ossetia and Abkhazia to their pre-conflict positions."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

President Obama faces united Republican opposition to his health care reform plan, which would expand coverage to some 30 million more Americans, and take steps such as ending insurance company practices of denying coverage for pre-existing medical conditions.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

"And it may not be the last." Bosworth repeated the Obama administration's policy that Washington is willing to talk one-on-one with North Korea, but only within the framework of six-nation talks begun in 2003 aimed at ending all of the North's nuclear capabilities.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Global research company REN 21 - a network of governments, non-government organizations, and industry associations - reports China's total wind power doubled for the fifth year in a row in 2008, ending that year producing 12 gigawatts and passing its 2010 development target of 10 gigawatts two years early.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

His comments reflected what other officials have said that ending the F-22 program is just one part of the effort to shift the focus of U.S.defenses away from what they see as the relatively remote possibility of a war with a major power and toward the types of smaller-scale conflicts of recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21