With Nordic combined athletes limited to as few as five jumps a week, Demong said being a more experienced athlete helps him maintain the focus to compete.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

President Obama has said he would be willing to speak with Cuba's leaders, but would maintain the embargo as leverage to push for democratic change and an improvement in human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

The Afrikaaner Resistance Movement, know as AWB, sought to maintain white dominance in apartheid South Africa and staged bomb attacks as the country prepared for its first democratic elections in 1994.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The election commission also said it hinged its decision on skepticism that any democratic vote could take place in the midst of the region's current political crisis as Somaliland President Dahir Riyale attempts to maintain his grip on power.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"I want to emphasize our commitment to the Nigerian market,". "This new flight is a key part of Delta's African expansion and ensures that we maintain our position as the number one US carrier to Nigeria and more broadly to Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

Prosecutors say he led members of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front across the border and acted as their effective leader for much of the country's Mr.Taylor's lawyers maintain that any contact their client had with Sierra Leonean rebels ended before the jurisdiction of this court begins.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10