One argument against the comet theory is that a comet would have left a large hole in the Earth's surface.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

If I had taken the letter, I might never have left his apartment alive."

VOA: special.2009.12.26

For example, they must have left school or been in trouble with the law.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

How could I have left it for those years of killing and suffering?"

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Now these children are grown and have left the nest.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

He says Kurds have left predominantly Kurdish cities to increase the population of Kirkuk,to annex it to Kurdistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

(VOICE) She recited a long list of relatives who have left Moscow in recent days, hoping to find cleaner air and cooler temperatures.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

As a result,many young Navajos have left to seek work in big cities throughout the Southwest.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

An estimated 80,000 scientists have left the country in search of better pay, funding and facilities.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

The drought, and nearly two decades of political unrest and economic neglect have left the Mudug region one of the poorest and least developed in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Campaigners say it has helped to shine a spotlight on the violent consequences of the trade in illicit diamonds - a spotlight they hope will remain even after the celebrities have left.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

More than 150,000 people have left their homes in Burkina Faso, many in the capital Ouagadougou, where the United Nations says the amount of rain that fell in one day last week equals one-quarter of the nation's average annual rainfall.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

"Either once they have left their country and are on route, or when they have actually arrived in the country of destination, that their passports are taken way, they are locked up and then they are forced into prostitution,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.21