Some were known as "privateers." They were given special letters by the British government to attack the ships of enemy nations.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Peace would have given this donkey a chance to escape from ever being found out as being so stupid.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Instead,she said people with mental disabilities needed to be treated as useful citizens and given special education and training.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

As part of the research project, nine farmers were given materials and trained how to build and use a hoop house.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Upshur told the Texas representative in Washington that Texas would be given military protection just as soon as the treaty was signed.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

At that moment, I would have given my soul to become as small as she and enter her world to help her.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

It can be given to children as young as one, which is earlier than vaccines currently used to fight meningitis epidemics in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

It could mean the soldier himself. It could mean things given to soldiers when they joined the military such as weapons,equipment or clothes.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

We can,for example, given the rate of investment, eliminate malaria as a public health problem, we can prevent millions of more HIV infections and also in tuberculosis.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

These problems were more common among males, those with injured nerve tissue in the brain and those who had been given oxygen supplies for days as a baby.

VOA: special.2010.11.30

As soon as Brown spoke, the signal was given.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

His inaugural committee Web site is naming donors who have given The limit for individual contributions is Organizers have been preparing for as many as 2 million people at the inauguration of the first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

This has given rise to systemic risks affecting livelihoods, the environment as well as human and animal health."

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

I didn't quite know where we would be at any given time and I think we discovered this as we went along."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27