The Barbary States, as they were known, demanded payment for the release of hostages and safe passage of American ships.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

And the question remains whether her family had a legal or moral right to receive payment after something of monetary value was made from their mother's cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Revolutions and dictatorships there prevented re-payment of foreign loans.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

Banks began demanding early payment of loans.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

And London's Transport Authority has promoted the Oyster card, a magnetic payment system that keeps track of where people have been and when.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The payment crisis marked a turning point for India's economy as it prompted the government to reverse decades of closed-door, socialist style economic policies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

She says she gets nothing from album sales and the payment of royalties is very complicated.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Gates told Asian defense officials they were all familiar with North Korea's tactic of creating a crisis and then demanding payment to end the crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Turay teaches without a salary, accepting instead offers of rice and farm-labor as payment.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The International Monetary Fund last week released the second payment of a controversial The United States, which has the largest voting share on the IMF's executive board, was seen as attempting to delay the huge loan to pressure Sri Lanka to address human rights issues in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09