'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ' Those sixteen words provide the framework for how we deal with religion in our public schools."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

"We have 192 countries in the framework convention on climate change and one of them wants to have separate rules,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"We are working on a framework agreement in Copenhagen that will be an important agreement for the world."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"There will be a continued role for ongoing stimulus in the short-term as we develop the framework for strong,sustainable and balanced growth."

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

Brian Myers,a professor at Dongseo University who specializes in North Korean media, says the six-party framework is dead.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

The United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen is intended to create the framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

"Because we've learned that risk does not respect national borders, our plan will not focus solely on improving the basic framework in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"My concern is that these drones, these Predators, are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Kyoto expires in 2012. But many say a political framework is more likely at Copenhagen, with a binding accord to be worked out possibly next year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

But now executive secretary of the U.N.Framework Convention on Climate Change Yvo de Boer says any decision taken next month in Copenhagen will instead be "morally binding."

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Late Thursday, the Democratic-led House and Senate voted in support of the administration's budget framework, which calls for higher spending on domestic programs like education and health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Industrialized and developing nations have for two years been trying to come up with a workable framework for December negotiations in Copenhagen but with little to show for it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

The president meets Wednesday with Senate Democrats, as the budget committee there and in the House of Representatives begin "marking up" budget resolutions, which form the framework for appropriations and other important legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"To close this important gap in our regulatory structure, legislative action is needed that would subject all systemically-important financial institutions to the same framework for consolidated supervision that currently applies to bank holding companies."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The six nations reached an agreement in September 2005, creating a framework for gradually reducing the North's arsenal, while normalizing its relations with Japan,the United States, and South Korea.Since then,however, North Korea has conducted two nuclear weapons tests.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11