For three years, al-Shabab has led militants in battles -- mostly against the peacekeepers -- for control of Mogadishu.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

However, officials say any reduction in the use of pesticides must make sure that disease control efforts are not weakened.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

This victory gave Japan control over the economy of the southern part of what was then called Manchuria, in northeastern China.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

By the end of nineteen sixty-two, there were more than forty bills in state legislatures proposing to control pesticides.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

For the first time in eighteen years, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Early in eighteen fifty, Texas sent a representative to Santa Fe to take control of the government.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

In fact,the patients who had the treatment reported an average gain of nearly five hours each day of good control of their symptoms.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

In nineteen eighty-six, Rita Levi-Montalcini shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering processes that control the growth of cells and organs.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

With Vicksburg in Union hands, the North could control the whole length of the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

But in 1759, the British took control of the fort and renamed it Ticonderoga.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Not surprisingly, radical Republicans held firm control in every one of the new governments.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In it,Lincoln said powerful forces had seized control in seven states of the South.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Then in nineteen twenty-five, Guy Lowell,a relative of Percival, gained control of the observatory.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Clive Randall,president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam, says the government responded aggressively to take control of the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16