She handed the girl a five dollar bill and waited for her change and the wrapped box with the stockings.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

As he handed the basket to his wife, a sudden rush of cool rain put out the fire.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

The old man climbed a ladder, picked a peach and handed it to his wife.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

"One soldier had been fighting in the jungles for years. And I don't know if it had affected him or not, but when the clerk handed him a tweed suit to try on he spent three hours searching through the fuzz for snipers."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The last stadium, in the eastern city of Nelspruit, is to be handed over as soon as a new pitch is finished.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

First and foremost, a lot of times the information that's being handed over to the government isn't information that pertains to a crime."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

A three-judge panel in Ethiopia handed down sentences to 39 men and one woman in the so-called Ginbot Seven, or May 15 conspiracy case.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The kidnappers reportedly handed over the journalists to four members of Somalia's transitional federal government late Wednesday at a security checkpoint in the capital.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

The military then handed power to Mr.Rajoelina. A leading authority on constitutional law, Antananarivo University President Jean-Eric Rakotoarisoa, blames the former president for Madagascar's situation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

There were no surprises in the European Parliament vote in Strasbourg,France, which handed incumbent European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso a second term in office.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

"The main condition is that there first has to be a settlement and it has to be ratified then the land will be handed over."

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

In the days since a local court handed out two-year prison terms to seven former Indian employees of Union Carbide, many searching questions have been raised about the verdict.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

U.S.Middle East envoy George Mitchell held six days of talks in the region last week trying to find a formula for resuming peace talks, but came up empty handed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Speaking a day after the Islamic militant group Hamas handed over the tape in exchange for the release of 20 female Palestinian prisoners, Noam Shalit said he does not expect a breakthrough.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

After these latest sentences were handed down, UDJ spokesman Siye Abraha questioned the death penalty in what he called a 'political case.' "The overall problem in the country is political and the solution is basically political.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23