For years,the Central Intelligence Agency stood at the forefront of U.S.efforts to extract information from terror suspects in the post-9/11 era.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

Stowe is at the forefront of a revolution in the way heart patients are being cared for.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

And he said French business expertise in water, oil and infrastructure development is known worldwide, and France wants to be at the forefront of reconstructing Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"Also,in the form of fighting terrorism. There is nothing new that now after 9/11, in the global fight against terrorism, that secret places of detention again came to the forefront of our attention, of course,in the context of CIA practices, but going far beyond that."

VOA: standard.2009.03.21