Easy credit helped fuel an explosion of development.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Baghdad TV showed pools of blood and chunks of cinderblock from the explosion of a bomb in the Kurdish village of Sinjar,near Mosul.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

They are known as Asian Carp and the explosion of their population in the Illinois River is a concern to large-river ecologist Kevin Irons.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

An estimated 700 million liters of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20th explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Not using this crisis as an excuse to go on an explosion of spending."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Eleanor Johnson is a professor in the English and Comparative literature department at Columbia University who attributes a growing misuse of language to the explosion of electronic communication.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"We do have this explosion of chronic diseases related to obesity."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Mohammad Akhter,Executive Director of the National Medical Association, said reform is needed to deal with an explosion of chronic disease in the United States, adding that failure to pass a bill now would mean more expense for the country later.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

The assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the city of Sarajevo was the spark that set off the explosion.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

Then, on the night of February fifteenth, a powerful explosion shook the battleship Maine in Havana harbor.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Twenty-nine of them died in an explosion at an underground mine in West Virginia on April fifth,twenty-ten.

VOA: special.2011.07.01

It is the creative center of the secret Manhattan Project, which made the explosion possible.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

He says the team he works on got interested in studying energy drinks because of the explosion in their popularity in the last few years.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

It says an explosion or explosions by comets could explain the disappearance of many animals and human beings who lived in North America at that time.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The explosion robs the fire of oxygen.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Many have cuts and broken bones from falling debris and burns from the intense heat of the explosion.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Vegetable sellers mulled around the scene of the explosion in its aftermath, looking dazed and in disbelief.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01

Massey Energy Company did not send a representative to the hearing, saying it was not a formal investigation into the cause of the explosion.

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

They raided the house in the early hours of the morning. Gunfire and an explosion followed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

The neighborhood,he says, is inhabited by the Turkmen minority, but representatives of their community are not saying who they think was behind the explosion.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

President Medvedev arrived in capital city of Makhachkala as two people were killed when an explosion ripped their car apart in a Dagestani village.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Many of the victims were trapped inside their cars and trucks when the explosion occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01

"What was on his computer, nine pages of handwritten material that refers to fuses, or how to put together ignition devices for a larger explosion,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.20

"After that explosion, of course everyone was riveted as to what's going to happen."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

"It is critical that we find out the facts so that all of Massey and the industry's coal miners can work without fear of another explosion."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

The force of the explosion ripped the facades off several houses in the area.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The worst explosion occurred near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where eyewitnesses say a car-bomb packed with explosives killed more than two dozen worshippers at a mosque.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07