So in loco parentis no longer really applied.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The McAnespy's have applied to take part in a British Petroleum program to employ fishermen in the oil cleanup.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

He also said that forced transfers of staff, which critics say demoralized workers, would be applied only in exceptional circumstances.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

Gordon applied for the program back in July. But he says his lender lost his paperwork.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Most of Moldova was once part of Romania and about one in five Moldovans, some 800,000 people, have already either secured or applied for Romanian citizenship.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

At a recent World Bank forum in Washington, Setiawati spoke about how the lessons from the IOM's experience in Yogyakarta could be applied to other places,such as Haiti.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

"We do know that your friend, Senator George Mitchell, who,of course, played such a valuable role in Northern Ireland, has applied himself diligently and with great attention to detail."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"And indeed with that inter-mediation between wealth and poverty in the world you need to ensure that there are rules that are applied and you need to ensure that there is accountability."

VOA: standard.2009.06.10

(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03