Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received $500,000 as an advance payment for killing him.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Political experts see passage of health care as a crucial political test for Mr.Obama in advance of congressional midterm elections in November.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy of Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam University says the Talibans rapid advance towards the capital was a wake-up call for the government.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

"Elite Eight" and "Final-Four." Those four teams meet in the semifinals in Detroit,Michigan for the right to advance to the championship game on April 6.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

So she says(In other words) while emergency contraception is effective for individual women, advance provision can't be expected to make a different in the community.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Brumberg argues that U.S.support for democracy in the Middle East will advance President Obama's vision of an improved relationship between the United States and Muslim-majority states.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

He helped create the Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis, to preserve the history of the civil rights movement and advance its legacy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Scientists blame climate change and poor farming practices for the desert's advance.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Damon Lindelof, one of the show's creators, says getting ABC to announce an end date for "Lost" three years in advance, gave them time to carefully craft the plot line leading to the finale.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The outcome of the Saturday night drama had actually been sealed earlier in the day, when two Democratic senators who had not pledged their support for the bill announced that they would vote for it to advance to debate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

"When you can't say for sure whether all the women in the advance provision group actually used the medication, then you're kind of looking at population level effect of a strategy, not the individual effect of a medication."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

"Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people, and Iraq's leaders must now make some hard choices necessary to resolve key political questions, to advance opportunity and to provide security for their towns and their cities,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

The president has used appearances in St.Louis,and earlier this week in Philadelphia, to appeal for public support in advance of a hoped for vote in the House of Representatives, a crucial step in the final stage of his push for a health care bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

"We will get some vaccine at the beginning of the fall we won't be able to vaccinate everybody initially, so we'll be identifying priority groups, but because we had advance contracts for vaccine we'll get very big supplies through the fall and winter,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

"This conference gives us all an opportunity to reignite its path to progress by working as a team with Haiti at the helm to advance a comprehensive, long-term strategy for Haiti's growth, by coordinating hemispheric and international efforts, by targeting clear goals, by setting benchmarks to gauge our progress, and deploying our diverse skills and resources efficiently and effectively."

VOA: standard.2009.04.14