Ethan Holtzman says his band attempts to shine a light on this fact to help make sure such a situation never happens again.

VOA: special.2011.05.06

The situation is made worse by the fact that its ancient buildings, built on a body of water called a lagoon, are slowly sinking.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

President Taylor began writing a message to Congress on the situation.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

In May,the UN Human Rights Council held a special session on the situation in Sri Lanka.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

You're born into a situation that you may not like,poverty, and that weighs on children.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

On a related issue, spokesman Rupert Colville says the situation of one-quarter of a million displaced Tamils living in internment camps continues to be of great concern.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

The Israeli raid on the aid flotilla sparked an outcry and put intense international attention on the situation in Gaza, a narrow coastal strip with 1.5 million Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

But we are not in a situation yet where we can do that on a massive scale and unfortunately, they are slowly getting more angry I think and impatient."

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

"There is a difficult situation on the ground in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

"Our view is we're going to get the events off, but we felt that we were not prepared to create a situation that, in fact,could begin to encroach on the field of play."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

The so-called Global Political Agreement was an interim set of rules to normalize the tense political situation, and to set the country back on the road to normality through a revised constitution and eventually new elections.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Secretary Clinton said the Chinese understand the gravity of the situation on the Korean peninsula, where tensions have risen sharply following the March 26 torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship, killing 46 sailors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25