The assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the city of Sarajevo was the spark that set off the explosion.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

The international malaria community has set the end of twenty-ten as its target for meeting the first in a series of goals.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

In California, the State Board of Education plans to vote on August second to accept or reject a new set of standards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Here,he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer to make the silent robot move forward, backward or around in circles.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

To make that genome, the researchers replaced all the natural genetic material in a bacterial cell with a synthetic set of genes.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

For example, genes direct formation of the fetus's brain at set times in a woman's pregnancy.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

In nineteen ninety-nine, climbers set off to search for the remains of Mallory and Irvine.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

This treaty set the international rules for treatment of soldiers wounded or captured in war.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But Marc Tucker says students who pass the exams could stay in high school and take a demanding set of exams at the upper division level.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

He set up the conference in the Spanish seaport of Algeciras.

VOA: special.2010.09.02

The cost of the test is set locally in each country.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

"The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

In the event of violent protests, troops will isolate areas set for demolition and jam the cell phones of settlers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21