Officials here are not volunteering any ringing endorsements of the way President Karzai is handling his job, but they are rejecting the notion that the United States and European allies will push for creation of a new executive post in the Afghan government - a prime minister or a similar mandate - to dilute Mr.Karzai's powers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

For another chocolate creation, she uses Earl Grey Tea to give it a flavor of the bergamot fruit.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

But,she later woke up. The first thing she asked for was a pair of scissors so she could start another paper creation.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

But the central bank chief expects unemployment to remain high for some time because of slow job creation.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

For them,evolution opposed the explanation of creation found in the book of Genesis in the Bible.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

It supervised creation of a system for nations on the edges of the Indian Ocean after the great earthquake and tsunami of two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

In eighteen seventy-five, the French established an organization to raise money for Bartholdi's creation.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Later cases ruled that teaching religious creation stories in public schools violates the First Amendment of the Constitution that calls for separation of church and state.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Tyler vetoed two bills calling for the creation of a national bank.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

The report opposed creation of the bomb for humane reasons.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Mr.Obama called for the creation of a Palestinian state and condemned Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

An administration official suggests that money originally set aside to buy the troubled assets of financial firms may be used for job creation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

It led to the creation of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization,or GAVI.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

The president presented the project as a vehicle for job creation.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

The bill from Democratic Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham seeks to reinforce border controls and calls for the creation of a high-tech Social Security card to ensure that employers hire only legal workers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

But he got more applause from the Democratic side of the aisle than the Republican side when he called for Congress to pass a jobs creation bill and get it to his desk as quickly as possible.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

"And they will see President Obama's higher taxes, more spending,more debt, more government intervention in our economy,in the banks, in the auto industry, in health care and in energy as largely responsible for that lack of job creation,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

Smith says American academicians and journalists often cite a list of root causes for Middle East turmoil, in which the U.S., the West and Israel usually play a big part: a history of colonialism and economic exploitation, the creation of Israel and American support for the Jewish state, the politics of oil, Western backing of repressive Arab regimes and the U.S.military presence in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18