But Congress did not consider the proposal when it began debating a new tariff bill.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

It all began three or four years ago when there was construction boom.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

It began as an insurrection against Algeria's secular military rulers after they canceled parliament elections in 1992, when it appeared a coalition of Islamist groups might take power.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

When the search began, a half-century ago, it seemed sensible to assume that as technological civilization increased on a planet, more and more signals would be broadcast into space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The Israeli government angered and embarrassed the Obama administration a week ago when it announced, as Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel, that it will build 1,600 new Jewish housing units in mainly-Arab East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16