This had not worked. It had driven the different party groups farther apart.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Clinton said U.S.officials will begin meeting directly with Burma's military leaders to push for democracy because sanctions alone had not worked.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"The policy we have had in place for 50 years has not worked the way we wanted it to,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

The U.S.and other Western nations have long imposed sanctions on the government, which he says have not worked.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

She says the nearly 50-year embargo of the island has not worked.

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Norman Borlaug taught at Texas A&M University and worked on international projects until not long before his death on September twelfth.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The larger groups included many persons who were not farmers, but who lived and worked in agricultural areas.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

It was for the way she looked, not for how good she was or how hard she worked.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

She could not read well. And she worked at two or three jobs to support her family.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Another engineer, Drew Heckathorn, did not go to Africa but worked on parts of the project.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

He urged the Mormons not to leave the land they had worked so hard to build.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Event organizers have worked hard to ensure that the games will not pollute the environment.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

(MUSCI) Old man Calvin worked in a wheat mill not far from his house.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Her father worked hard but had not been very successful.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

It's not the first time CSPI has threatened legal action against junk food makers -- and the strategy has worked before.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

It's a much safer pill and a lot of the difficulties have been worked out in terms of safety and side effects, not all of them, but there are still problems with the Pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"To have us back away from those in order to get some kind of engagement seems to me, makes no sense because appeasement has never worked before and it seems to me to fly into that danger zone of appeasement, which is not wise policy,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"If you've ever worked on these cartel cases as I have as a prosecutor, you know a wall is not the best way to spend our dollars to prevent these drugs from coming into the United States and being able to apprehend and prosecute the smugglers themselves,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24