They finally agreed to send federal troops to Chicago -- where the strike had started -- to enforce federal postal laws.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

A few months earlier, the government of President George Washington had started a contest for the best design for the Capitol.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

In the late nineteenth century, Cesario Chavez, Cesar's grandfather, had started the Chavez family farm after escaping slavery on a Mexican farm.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King,Junior had started a movement of non-violent protest in the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Also,the South had started the Civil War which had caused so much death and destruction.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

When her health improved, she decided to leave Buckland, the school she had started.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

She soon began writing music and by age five had started playing the violin.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

A few days later, President Polk asked Congress to recognize that war had started.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

He wanted to continue the work Percival had started.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Cuban rebels had started a fight for independence.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

"These are people who are already receiving WFP food,actually they were receiving assistance through a voucher program that we had started earlier this year in support of these people and also of the market there."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

A UNHCR official based in South Sudan confirmed to VOA that it had started receiving a steady flow of refugees from the Central African Republic, adding to the large number of Congolese refugees who were displaced by the group.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

She wasn't eating. She had terrible stomach pains. She started clenching her jaw and grinding her teeth at night.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild terror, and covered her face with her hands?

VOA: special.2009.04.18