For people in the Champlain area, having it declared a Great Lake was great news.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The group says it may review an indefinite cease-fire it declared after 30 days.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

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

In the nineteen sixties, a major black civil rights group declared it the national song of black people in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

But in March of 1998, it joined the list - Congress declared Champlain the sixth Great Lake.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Alaskans accepted it, and on January third, nineteen fifty-nine, President Eisenhower declared Alaska the forty-ninth state.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In eighteen seventy-one, Germany declared that it would no longer support its paper money with silver.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

It was used to describe members of Congress who declared war on Britain in eighteen twelve.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

It was not until nineteen eighty-seven that Mister Reagan declared AIDS "public health enemy number one."

VOA: special.2011.06.15

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

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Hawaiians accepted it, and on August twenty-first, President Eisenhower declared Hawaii the fiftieth state.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Four days later, the World Health Organization declared it a worldwide health threat.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

4 days later, the World Health Organization declared it a worldwide health threat.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Technically,Congress and President Ronald Reagan declared it the "national floral emblem."

VOA: special.2010.06.15

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

The White House has declared the unemployment bill an emergency measure, meaning it does not have to be offset by spending cuts in other areas of the federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday declared the emergency phase over but said it would be months before most of the people displaced will know if they can go back to their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12