Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicholas Black joined after he read a story about the group in a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

She joined a close friend, Zilpah Grant, who had begun another private school, Ipswich Female Seminary.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

For example,in nineteen eighty-seven, he led a team of seventy doctors and nurses in an operation to separate two babies joined at the head.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

I collected my sword and a spear. I hurried out of the building and joined a group of warriors moving toward the end of the city.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

He joined a sports team at Yale that competed in rowing boats.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

He joined a group opposed to the development of nuclear weapons.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Chellsey Cruz joined a student-operated company two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

He later joined a group called the Flames.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Sixteen-year-old Sylvia Cheung was introduced to Junior Achievement last year when she joined a student company in Houston,Texas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

New Jersey Republican Leonard Lance joined a group of newly-elected House Republicans supporting a proposal to require the government to recover bonuses.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

More than 800 people have joined a Facebook group that opposes his appointment.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Heading east, he met and joined a Soviet tank battalion.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

Some 3,000 Israelis joined a gay pride parade in Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

In 1981 Ayala joined a legal battle as an expert witness in the challenge against an Arkansas law mandating that the biblical story of creation be taught in schools, alongside Darwin's theory of evolution.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

And President Yoweri Museveni recently joined other east African leaders in calling for a mission with twenty thousand troops.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

A ceramist creates several flat pieces of clay that can be joined together to make the sides of the container.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Another door opened under the king, and a clergyman,singers, dancers and musicians joined the man and the lady.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Now he has joined with aviation designer Burt Rutan to form a new space travel company, Virgin Galactic.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

He said the three nations are joined by a common goal to "defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

VOA: special.2009.05.09

In nineteen ninety-four, engineers and government agencies joined to plan a possible rescue of Poplar Island.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

"What I was really surprised by when I first joined was how many people were there who I knew.'" Evan Falchuk is a lawyer.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

A few weeks later, before the talks could be completed, Upshur joined the president and congressional leaders for a trip down the Potomac River.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Then,they joined the two spacecraft together again, just as astronauts would do after a moon landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

After his swearing-in, the president joined members of Congress for a luncheon in the Capitol.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

A bill was proposed that would free any slave who joined the army to fight.

VOA: special.2009.12.03