Miz Mankiller led efforts to build more houses and health care centers and expand educational possibilities for her tribe.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

At the end of March, President Obama called for the United States to expand its offshore oil and gas exploration.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The proposed law aims to expand community-based services for those who want to receive long-term care at home.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

Now,the nonprofit Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines is trying to expand production and lower the cost.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

And it will expand to markets for small businesses and products like student and auto loans.

VOA: special.2009.02.13

Two goals are to expand health insurance to millions of Americans who do not have it, and to control rising costs for those who do.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

For now,there are no plans to expand the business beyond Agogo.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Like a measure in the House, the $871 billion Senate bill would create new private insurance marketplaces,or exchanges, to expand choices for Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Negotiations have been stalled for months,and analysts say the Israeli government's decision to expand a number of settlements appeared to be a major blow to efforts to revive them.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"Right now we're mostly sampling for hydrocarbons and other bacteria, but what we would like is expand into some other chemical compounds that may be contained within the dispersants."

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

At the heart of the controversy were changes to marriage laws, including articles that set the legal minimum age for marriage at 18, recognize only civil marriages, allow joint property ownership, expand parental rights, and extend inheritance rights to girls.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

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

"One small business owner wrote to me that health care costs are-and I quote-' stifling my business growth" "He said that the money he wanted to use for research and development, and to expand his operations, has been instead been 'thrown into the pocket of health care insurance carriers."

VOA: standard.2009.10.03