It was because of men like Jacob Riis that this is so.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Over 60 percent of those women said it was because they were in an exclusive sexual relationship.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Some people say it was a fitting subject because Cecil B.DeMille often was called the greatest showman in Hollywood.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

They did so because it was illegal at the time for people of different races to marry in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

September fifteenth was chosen as the starting date because it is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The program was important because it helped provide work for more than three thousand seven hundred professional artists who were unemployed.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

"What was it like up on stage?" "It was pretty fun. I was mostly chopping because I'm not good with chords.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

It was free because Congress -- in the Missouri Compromise of Eighteen Twenty -- made slavery illegal in that area.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

I just got good at it, because I knew I had to hurry because I was supposed to die."

VOA: special.2009.09.16

But it lacked financial support. Mary said the lack of support was because of "good men's fear of greatness in women."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

It has been said that Napoleon was successful because he knew the field position of every one of his guns.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

He said later that he did so because he was finding it difficult to bring up the question of surrender.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

And,it was called The City of the Big Shoulders or City of Broad Shoulders because of its importance to the nation.

VOA: special.2010.01.10