The most difficult national problem facing the administration of President Franklin Pierce was the situation in Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

There was fighting in the streets! An official of the War Department described the situation.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Mia Farrow began a hunger strike to protest the situation of refugees in Darfur.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

This is the situation in one of Wharton's most popular books, "Ethan Frome,"

VOA: special.2010.10.24

Almost fifteen percent of all households were in that situation.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

"Some of our projects have looked at what we call situational impairments, which are challenges to accessibility that are caused more by the situation or context that the computer user is in instead of maybe as we usually think of accessibility as having to do with someone's own physical or cognitive state."

VOA: special.2011.04.18

Like the tangled electricity wires at Bourj al Barajne camp outside Beirut, the situation of Palestinians in Lebanon is complicated.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

One of them is the political situation. Afghanistan held elections in August but the results are contested amidst allegations of fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

He says differences of opinion are reaching the boiling point because the situation in Afghanistan is not looking good.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Ballo adds there is also a shortage of beds, and the situation in many homes is one of cramped quarters.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

"I think all of us are concerned about the situation in Afghanistan, as well as rising violence in Pakistan,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

"I am afraid that Switzerland made concessions just because of two individuals who are in a really difficult situation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

The situation in Kandahar is going to get better, says Tony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Any marginal changes in the weather,she says, can drive thousands of children into a situation of severe and acute malnutrition.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04