He did so for two reasons: Calhoun believed that Texas should be part of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

For political reasons, the proclamation did not free slaves in the states that supported the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

"I am convinced that Haiti has a remarkable opportunity to escape the chains of its past for several reasons."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

And that involves the intentional destruction of a group in whole or in part for religious,ethnic or racial reasons.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The court rejected an appeal by Coleman to include some 4,000 absentee ballots that had been rejected for various reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

"We are fighting a war a half a century later that we lost for similar reasons a half a century earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"It is reasonable to hope that there will be less irregularities this time for several reasons,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Some do it for altruistic reasons. That was Judy Payne's motive.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

But we started to realize that money was not going to the schools in good time, and when we were asking for reasons, they would not give the reasons."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

I'm not going to give it all the credit, but maybe that was one of the reasons why I was able to come back so strong for the team pursuit and have a medal hanging around my neck today."

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

Mohammed Said Idries, of the Al Ahram Center for Strategic Studies, says that there are many reasons why the electoral law remains stalled in the Iraqi parliament, but that the quarrel about the identity Kirkuk is one key stumbling block.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

"I think there are many who realize that constantly imposing demands on the Iranians which they either have no intention or the capacity to fulfill for domestic political reasons has not gotten us very far over the last three or four years,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The national reports clearly, from 20 countries out of the 21 countries in the region, Iraq was the only country that could not report, for understandable reasons - all 20 countries have shown that they have weak programs, weak surveillance, and that the coverage is very,very poor.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07