His father,Joe Brown, had a job removing fluids from pine trees in the surrounding woods.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

The surrounding area does not make you suspect the existence of such a great opening in the earth.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

When a baby's head is stuck in the birth canal for an extended period of time, it cuts off the blood supply to the woman's surrounding organs.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

They camped in tents surrounding the Washington Monument.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

The U.S.capital and surrounding areas received more snow in 36 hours than it usually sees in an entire winter.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Actress Mia Farrow was questioned by the court about the events surrounding a dinner party hosted by Nelson Mandela in 1997.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission had found enough doubt surrounding some evidence presented in that trial to recommend the case merited an appeal.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Cracks are appearing in the wall of silence surrounding the secret practice of extraordinary rendition as prisoners are coming forward to tell of their ordeals.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

The flood waters, carrying mud and debris, coursed down the mountain slopes of Ladakh, causing widespread damage in the region's main city,Leh, and surrounding villages.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Police adopted similar tactics early Sunday in Lahore, surrounding the home of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and deploying scores of officers in riot gear throughout the city.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Zamarripa says US officials are well aware of the continuing bloodshed in Juarez and surrounding areas and want to help Mexican counterparts gain control of the situation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

No censorship." Looted businesses in Kyrgyzstan attest to lawless citizens just as high-caliber bullet holes in the fence surrounding the Kyrgyz White House attest to lawless government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Former footballer and Deputy General-Secretary of the Union, Thulaganyo Gao Shubelwe, says footballers can play a positive role in conveying the safe-sex message because of the aura surrounding them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Haitian police officers that remain on the streets have been overwhelmed by the lawlessness surrounding them, at times resorting to shooting in the air to try to restrain the populace.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

The report says these abuses were targeted against the very people they were supposed to be protecting in eastern Congo's provincial capital of Goma, and in surrounding towns and villages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Roads surrounding the Metropark Hotel in Wanchai district were closed Friday in the middle of the evening rush hour as the government vehicles prepared to transport nearly 300 people from the hotel.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Authorities are taking no chances. Although they have announced there will be no red zone, an alcohol ban will come into force starting Tuesday in the center of Rome and the area surrounding the stadium.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

Access to a Caesarean section to relieve the pressure of obstructed labor is the most common way of preventing an unborn child from pressing so tightly in the birth canal that it cuts off blood flow to surrounding tissue.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23