For the first time the W.H.O.raised its alert level from phase four to phase five on April twenty-ninth.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Last year,for the first time, the World Health Organization added snakebites to its list of "neglected tropical diseases."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

That has not happened. But the Obama administration has made its general goals known for some time.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

As Elizabeth Rhodes says, that was a revolutionary message for its time.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

PepsiCo will not be advertising its flagship soft drink in the game for the first time in 23 years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

She added the United States intends to continue its economic assistance and training of Afghan security forces for a long time to come.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

For the first time in its history, the Sirius/XM radio network dedicated one of its channels exclusively to a jazz artist,trumpeter Miles Davis.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Congress will take its annual long recess in August, and Democrats hope to use the time to build support for health-care reform around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Mr.Obama urged Tehran to agree to a U.N.proposal to ship its uranium abroad for processing, adding that time for diplomacy on the issue is running out.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"Now that we have discovered the endogenous capsaicin molecules, for the first time, we can block their synthesis and therefore we can treat pain at its cause."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Cape May is also famous for its brightly painted gingerbread accents gingerbread meaning fancy wooden decorations from the time when people in town had a saying: Decorate everything, including the decoration!

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

"For the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant, the largest of its kind in the entire nation, will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Saying the United States is the only advanced democracy and only wealthy nation that allows such hardships for millions of its people, the president said the time has come to put politics aside and solve the problem.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10