The festival later expanded to include the parade and a big game in college football.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

So poetry,plays,screenplay readings, and we've expanded to music and visual arts.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

In April, Question Box expanded to Uganda.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

It started in 1999 with a single Sunday, and then expanded to a weekend, says founder David Levinson.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

The best picture competition, which honors a film's producers, has been expanded to 10 entries this year.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Thirty million dollars from the health care reform law is to go to support prevention activities, including expanded HIV testing.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Ireland's bank bailout and government spending have expanded this year's deficit to more than thirty percent of gross domestic product.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

the name given the original series. The series expanded over the years to one hundred seventy-five books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Wayne Bronner says demand for small objects to hang on Christmas trees has expanded over the years.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

The government later expanded the house and used the land to build the Soldiers' Home for veterans.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

South Africa launched an expanded program to watch for public health threats during the World Cup.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

For example, the court will have to rule on whether companies with majority foreign ownership can enjoy the same expanded rights of political speech.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

President Ronald Reagan expanded the national celebration to a month-long event in nineteen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

She successfully expanded The Washington Post Company to include newspaper,magazine, broadcast and cable companies.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The telomere research expanded scientific knowledge about diseases and led to possible new treatments.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

"All what we've been able to gain in the past with the access to clean water, expanded immunization programs were totally reversed with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.

VOA: special.2011.07.20

withdrawal from Afghanistan would likely lead to the Taliban regaining power, and questioned what an expanded U.S.military presence would accomplish.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

When the company expanded its recalls to Japan, the public reacted with disbelief.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

They recently expanded their interventions to the country's northern zone.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Two states banned them outright. Those laws were rendered invalid for married women by a 1965 Supreme Court decision and the ruling was expanded in 1972 to cover all women.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The White House is also promising action to make it a little easier for middle-class students to pay for college,and to provide expanded community services to help families caring for elderly relatives.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

Both would also use tax increases on higher-earning Americans, various other taxes, and reductions in payments to medical-care providers under the government Medicare and Medicaid programs to pay the costs of expanded insurance.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

In 2006,the Russian parliament passed anti-extremism legislation that expanded the definition of extremism to include the slandering of a public official, hindering the work of authorities and involvement in hooliganism or vandalism for ideological, religious or ethnic reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04