Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

He says you can harvest parsley by cutting most of the plant, or leave more of the plant in the ground for a second crop.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Two hours after arriving, they began to prepare the ground for planting.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

His job is to prepare the ground for indirect talks that the United States will mediate.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

The cemetery started as a burial ground for American Civil War dead.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

The pools become a breeding ground for mosquitos. ...

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The governor's spokesman,Irmasyah, who goes by one name, says there are concerns the islands will become a dumping ground for refugees (Speech) "We do not want our region to become a shelter,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

During an appearance on the NBC television program Meet the Press, Specter said he would also like to see the president reach beyond the federal court system - the traditional training ground for members of the high court.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

"I think the position of providing a middle ground for President Bashir, not denying the ICC decision, but asking for it to be postponed, and giving Bashir some breathing space is a way for the regimes such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia to indicate that they do have a position independent from the West,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Spreading mulch before the ground has frozen may attract small animals searching for a warm place to spend the winter.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Sharp words from a teacher,for example, can usually get a daydreaming student to put both feet on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

This makes it more difficult for the body to effectively use the same amount of oxygen as it would on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

It,too,is hungry. Traveling across the ground at great speed, the cat nears the area where the pig is fighting for its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

For he will have been elected on such ground that he cannot possibly save the Union afterwards."

VOA: special.2009.12.10

We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

But lawmakers have yet to find common ground on how to pay for it.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

By supporting nuclear energy, the president may be seeking common ground with Republicans who have called for building as many as one hundred new nuclear power centers.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Men lay flat on the ground. They prayed for the shelling to stop.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

Some cleared the ground of trees and cut them into wood for houses.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

He urged the two sides to look for common ground.

VOA: special.2010.02.27