The family had to move from a costly apartment in Manhattan to a small house in Brooklyn.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Thomas Walsh had it built more than one hundred years ago as a home for his family.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Syria has long had a single-party system led by the Ba'ath party of the Assad family.

VOA: special.2011.08.06

Eunice Shriver and her family had a personal reason to be interested in this issue.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

John Brown's lawyers tried to show that his family had a history of madness.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Even a man with a good job had a difficult time feeding his family.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

President Theodore Roosevelt's family had a pony,a sheep,a bird,guinea pigs,dogs,cats,rats and a snake.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

And the question remains whether her family had a legal or moral right to receive payment after something of monetary value was made from their mother's cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

She was from an old southern family. Her father had been a judge.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

George and his two brothers and sister had a close,happy family life.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

He had an American-born wife from a family in his native Pakistan.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Ms.Skloot had a difficult time gaining the trust of the Lacks family.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Long ago, the building had belonged to a noble family.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

For years,this had been a closely guarded family secret.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

"Marley had earned a place in our family.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

" I have had many students who come from a blended culture family who perhaps the mother celebrated Hanukkah and the father celebrated a different holiday, and so they really do both within their home."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Our house had beenin Mama's family since her grandpa'sgrandpa's grandpa had come across the oceanabout a thousand years ago.

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Born into a wealthy Irish-Catholic family, Edward Kennedy had a passion for helping the poor, disabled and disadvantaged, as President Obama remembered.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

"It was a complete balancing act," "Sometimes I had to prioritize family over schoolwork without falling behind, but I somehow did it,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

With the family in a dire situation, the woman had to ask her husband and mother-in-law for permission to sell the tapestries and crafts she could produce.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Paul McCartney who recorded with Jackson before they had a falling out over the ownership of the Beatles music catalog says his prayers go out to the singer's family and fans.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

"I was just in Sri Lanka last week and in Indonesia about a month ago talking to people who had lost family members and the loss,the sorrow, the irreplaceable loved one is still felt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26