"But having learned lessons from the first elections that there was widespread fraud, irregularities and fraudulence, we will try our best in close coordination with Afghan leadership and Afghan institutions and other international major partners to make this election as fair and free of fraudulence,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Doctors in training may have to do hundreds of stitches in some cases to close the skin after an operation.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

He believed that much of what was being said and done in Ohio was close to the crime of treason.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

In two thousand eight they had close to two million students -- nearly three times more than in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

But the risk rises to one in every 40 people among those who have a close family member with the disease.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel is close to losing what he called its "best friend" in the area.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

In Paris, Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates, Julia Gardner, whose family was from Boston, Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

At the close of the Group of 20 Summit in Toronto,Canada, the president noted moves in Europe to cut government spending.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wrote in the Washington Post that the deep financial crisis is close to the end.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

In April,after the first cases in the United States, officials told schools to close at the first sign of an H1N1 outbreak.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Land protests last year forced the company to close its factory in the Indian state of West Bengal.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

But the closeness of their friendship might be seen best in a story told by one of Roosevelt's close advisers, Harry Hopkins.

VOA: special.2011.07.07