Election officials are scrambling to organize the new ballot as the fierce Afghan winter approaches and the country faces a growing threat from the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

She has since become a fierce supporter of literary freedom and is part of several organizations that fight censorship.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Last week,we told how John Carter observed a fierce battle between the green Martians and a race of red, human-like creatures.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Soviet forces under Marshal Georgy Zhukov won a fierce battle for the city of Stalingrad -- now Volgograd.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

McClellan was fooled. And after a day of fierce fighting, he was forced to withdraw from the area.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

There were fierce battles in Gaza on Friday as Hamas and Israel both rejected a United Nations call for an immediate cease-fire.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

He was a fierce,little,old man who protected the two young women in the studio apartment above him.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The badger is a similar and equally fierce creature and Wisconsin is "The Badger State."

VOA: special.2009.08.09

A fierce media war was going on between two major newspaper publishers in New York.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The animal was believed to be a fierce predator that ate other dinosaurs.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

He saw a huge fierce panther dragging the dead woman toward the window.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The fighting grew bloodier. A fierce battle took place at Monte Cassino.

VOA: special.2011.06.02

Its teeth filled a fierce-looking mouth that was heavy with muscles.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

We entered a room that was filled with fierce green warriors.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

looks like a fierce tribal chief standing straight and tall.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

Competition to work at a top hospital can be fierce.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

One reporter said he looked like a fierce bulldog.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

A wolverine is a small,fierce mammal.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Instead,she was a fierce, black woman.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The reporter,Stephen Farrell, told his newspaper he escaped during a fierce firefight between the commandos and his Taliban captors.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Government troops launched a fierce offensive against the ONLF in early 2007 after the rebels attacked a Chinese owned oil exploration field in Ethiopia's Ebole district, killing 74 people.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan ,". Congress says his government is engaged in a fierce battle with drug traffickers that export illegal narcotics to the United States, but that Mexico cannot win the battle alone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU has decided to earmark nearly $90 million in new humanitarian aid for people displaced by the conflict in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley and other areas where the government is fighting a fierce Taliban insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.06.17