The hot line had an important purpose: to prevent accidental war between the two competitors during the period known as the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

For a family of two,the poverty line begins at yearly earnings of fourteen thousand dollars or less.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

It is along or near this fault line that most of California's earthquakes take place, as the two tectonic plates move in different directions.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

Facing Cemetery Hill, the Confederates stood shoulder to shoulder in a line almost two kilometers long.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

By eighteen-sixty-two, the trail was the main supply line for Union forces in the Southwest.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The album "No Line on the Horizon" took the band about two years to complete.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

"During the last two days the contrabands fairly swarmed about the Fredericksburg and Falmouth Stations, and there was a continuous black line of men, women and children moving north along the road, carrying all their worldly goods on their heads.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

The Germans,by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armored tanks, have broken through the French defenses north of the Maginot Line, and strong columns of their armored vehicles are ravaging the open country, which for the first day or two was without defenders.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

Roger, Strong-arm!Be advised we have incoming from the tree line at point blue plus two!A.K. s and rockets!

VOA: standard.other

H.K.Suh from the group Korean Americans for Peace said he believes a drawdown of U.S.troops everywhere, including on the dividing line between the two Koreas, would be beneficial to the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20