Also this week, the Obama administration named a former Justice Department official as so-called border czar.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

That is a strike called without official approval by a union.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

A senior U.S.official acknowledges the clock is ticking on showing the effectiveness of America's multibillion dollar attempt to rebuild Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The only government official at the meeting was a young Interior Ministry representative who was asked to convey the group's documents to his superiors.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

(Sound) Senior Hamas official Ahmad Bahar told a news conference in Gaza that Mr.Abbas's rule is illegitimate and he has no authority to declare elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

A cool rain forced the official arrival ceremony indoors.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"The key message that we want to get across this time is for ASEAN to really address, to really engage dialogue with the regime of how they have already been breaching the charter so that as a regional bloc that we really want it on the table as official agenda,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

A Census Bureau official says four hundred billion dollars in grants and loans will be available over the next ten years.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

The king's official took a long list from his pocket and said, "your majesty, I've gotten you many things.

VOA: special.2010.11.13

When she arrived in Moscow, a Soviet official gave her a special travel permit, because he liked her industrial photographs.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Microfinance provides poor people with a way to build savings and work toward becoming part of a country's official financial system.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

One of its official organizers in the United States is a Washington based nonprofit group called Earth Day Network.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But another military official said Iran would still need three to five more years to create such a weapon.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

An official from the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library presented the films to the Library of Congress during a ceremony in October.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

A green card is an official document identifying a person as a permanent resident of the United States.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Here,a former official of Goldman Sachs investment bank explains what his group did before the financial crisis.

VOA: special.2010.04.30