The law was extended for another ten years then made permanent.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

for an extended period." Low interest rates and growing federal deficits have weakened the dollar.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

In the words of poet Walt Whitman: "It is for the interest of mankind that America's power and territory should be extended -- the farther,the better."

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Streamlining soon extended to furniture and other objects for the house and office.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

When a baby's head is stuck in the birth canal for an extended period of time, it cuts off the blood supply to the woman's surrounding organs.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

People suffer seizures and thinking problems, and they sleep for extended periods.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

"The committee continues to anticipate that the economic conditions -- including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends and stable inflation expectations -- are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate for an extended period."

VOA: special.2011.04.29

Parliament's tenure was extended by a year after it missed the May 2010 deadline for writing the constitution.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

That invitation was also extended to a group of North Korean artists, who are displaying their work in Australia for the first time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

On Wednesday,North Korea extended a rare apology to the South for a flood it unleashed last month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

A spokesperson for the British high commission in Islamabad says the envoy has taken "extended leave".

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Last year,President Barack Obama backed Bernanke for a second term, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs expressed optimism his tenure will be extended.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

Uranium enrichment is the process used to make fuel for nuclear power plants, but when extended it can also produce fissile material for an atomic bomb.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

This week,the government extended the state of emergency for Bangkok and 18 provinces.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

"Our emphasis in Canada for some time now,particularly since we extended our mission, has been the necessity of seeing the Afghan government accept and be able to handle greater responsibility for the day-to-day security of that country,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The interrogators were told they could put them in painful standing positions, deprive them of solid food, keep them awake for extended periods of time, lock them in cold rooms, and submit them to the technique of simulated drowning known as waterboarding.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17