Some educators and parents do not like the idea of sending students as young as sixteen off to college, before they may be socially ready.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

"Wouldn't you like to go meet Missus Trotter once before we leave?"

VOA: special.2010.04.24

"To me it's too artificial and it's also the same story that you've seen before with indigenous groups and the white colonial forces coming to destroy them or something like that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

"When I was talking about knowing if my business is viable or not, through a profit-and-loss model, I was like 'Wow,I didn't even know the word viable before, and now I do.'

VOA: special.2011.06.30

Lincoln said to the old man: "When I think of the sacrifices of life still to be offered, and the hearts and homes to be made lonely before this terrible war is over, my heart is like lead.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

But never before like this. Such Tweet Sorrow, the newest version of Romeo and Juliet, is 'tweeted' online by six actors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

"This region that has known a lot of hardship will bounce back just like it has bounce back before.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Like his father and his grandfather before him, he makes his living harvesting the fish and shellfish of the Louisiana Gulf coast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

But there is little science before he races. Like many athletes, Weibrecht has a set of superstitious routines.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

But the ACLU's statement, like the congressional vote, occurred before last week's potential catastrophe on a U.S.-bound jet.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

I just thought it was most amazing sounding thing. It sounded like nothing I'd ever heard before,I guess."

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Sometimes the fight is over before it begins - like when a bull runs away from his opponent, dragging his owner behind him.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Jacques Rogge says many Canadians have told him that having the Olympics in Vancouver has united the country like they have never seen before.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

He says it is important students learn about the Khmer Rouge era - and stories like his own - before it is all forgotten.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19