That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

A well-known example was when women's education groups objected to a talking Barbie that declared, among other things, "Math class is tough!"

VOA: special.2009.04.06

"There is only one thing to do take it to the country!" he declared.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Who is that? Oh,just the man who declared himself emperor of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Sri Lanka's defense minister, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, is rejecting the cease-fire declared by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

He declared that the U.S. is not at war with Islam, but is against violent extremists who exploit the tensions between Islam and the West.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

North Korea has declared those talks "dead" several times this year,and says it is willing to deal only with the United States as a fellow nuclear weapons nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Mr.Obama is said to have declared that the United States and Cuba are "on a path of change", while reminding his fellow heads of state that the democratic process that brought them into office does not exist in Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18