They were sentenced in June to face twelve years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korea.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

The result is a container with a hard surface that will last for many years.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Walking through these historic areas, visitors today might find it hard to believe that a deadly storm swept through the city over four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

During his seventy-two years he was one of America's most hard-working musicians.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

After years of hard work, Hank Williams had become a star.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

His years of hard work paid off.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

They were given 10 years at hard labor. Defense attorneys for several of the defendants said they plan to appeal the sentences.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

On Monday,a Sri Lankan court sentenced Tissainayagam to 20 years of hard labor for causing "communal disharmony".

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The Asia-Pacific travel industry is on the rise after two years of hard times caused by soaring fuel prices and the global economic slump.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

"Even eight years later, it is hard to believe how people disrespect this day,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

He called the document a great achievement, after years of hard work.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Yettaw was facing seven years of hard labor for an uninvited visit to Aung San Suu Kyi's house where she has been detained for most of the last two decades despite international pressure for her release.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30