The main character in "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman is a failing English language newspaper published in Rome,Italy.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

The main agreement of the system, the Antarctic Treaty, was signed by twelve countries in nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Rod puppets are controlled by a stick or wire attached to the puppet's main body parts.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

By the middle of the nineteen-twenties, there were two main radio networks in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

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

VOA: special.2009.03.30

And yet we're getting less for our money." The main way that the federal government pays for health care is by insuring older people through the Medicare program.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The main character, played by best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe, is a troubled and overweight African American teenager.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Analyst Marquand says Macedonia has further angered Greece by naming a main roadway and,earlier, the national airport after the ancient conqueror Alexander the Great.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

The report calls for stronger steps to be taken by advanced economies to reduce carbon emissions, seen as the main cause of global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The seaport is one of three main sites in Mogadishu protected by the AMISOM forces.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

Soldiers from Uganda and Burundi are currently playing a vital security role by defending the presidential palace, the main seaport and airport from al-Shabab attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The so-called Red Shirts, led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship,or UDD, have the backing of the main parliamentary opposition group, the Puea Thai Party.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Mr.Karzai won the presidential election by default after his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from a runoff, saying it was impossible for the vote to be fair.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Each center is connected to the main hospital by video towers, designed with the help of students at the University of California Berkeley in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Arkhipov says honest bureaucrats are outcasts who are surrounded by an atmosphere of intolerance, because they are not convenient to bureaucrats or embezzlers, whose main goal is to cast the minority aside.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

Clinton,in a talk with reporters here, said she has been involved in intensive telephone diplomacy with President Karzai and his main election rival, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, and is encouraged by what she has heard from the parties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

He told the NBC television program Meet the Press that both the Senate and House versions of the bill achieve the main goal set by the president: making health care more affordable and accessible for all Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Earlier this week, Kasab took lawyers by surprise when he changed his plea to guilty and admitted that he sprayed gunfire at Mumbai's main train station after arriving in the city from Pakistan with other nine other gunmen.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

The winner of the presidential election will replace President Valdas Adamkus who is stepping down in July after completing a second and final five-year term Analysts say Lithuania's main political parties and politicians are widely disliked because of the current economic downturn, and their reputations have been overshadowed by corruption allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17