A ship-building program begun fifteen years earlier had made the American Navy one of the strongest in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

A person in one of Faulkner's stories says, "God created man, and he created the world for him to live in.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

For example, one afternoon a group of writers and critics gathered to discuss book sales in the Arab world.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Adair said one of the best honors in the world was to have John Wayne play him in a movie.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Director Kevin MacDonald wanted to make a documentary that shows one day in the life of the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.20

Still,this would only mean that there are community-level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Or,she can let you try a "single origin" chocolate grown in only one area of the world.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The United Nations has named Taos Pueblo a World Heritage Site, one of the most important historical and cultural places in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Among the project's findings is one that a group of Antarctic islands are richer in animal life than the world famous Galapagos Islands.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

A month earlier,twenty-six year old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Such demonstrations have become frequent in a country with one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

The two leaders will meet in the Czech capital, where,one year earlier, President Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Simbo says he can make up to $100 a week, an impressive take-home in one of the poorest countries in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The national budget has not been passed, the economy is stagnant, and development is at a standstill in one of the world's poorest nations.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The mayor hopes to make London one of the greatest cycling cities in the world, even so,riding a bike through the capital has its challenges.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Wednesday's incident escalates a long-running dispute in one of the world's most isolated regions.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

just because you have a different religion or you're born in a different part of the world, we all experience the pain of a lost loved one,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.12