In nineteen eighty-five, he led the congressional effort to order economic restrictions on South Africa because of its racial separation policy.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Then,with much effort, he slowly wrote the divorce decree on half a sheet of paper and copied it on the other.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

As part of the supply effort, the British Royal Air Force even landed Sunderland Flying Boats on a Berlin lake.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

The hard work of this grassroots effort resulted in the first Earth Day on April twenty-second, nineteen seventy.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Workers are drilling two relief wells in an effort to ease pressure on the damaged well.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

This was it. What could be an impossible effort in the history of spaceflight was ready to lift off on its final chance for success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

No effort was made to answer Republican attacks on the tariff issue.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

"What is necessary in this case is a collective effort, not only by the researchers and the people on the ground, but also the donor community, because controlling those two diseases can go a long way in improving people's food security and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa."

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Senator Reid says he believes Mr.Obama's address to the nation will help put the health care reform effort back on track.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

"As we went on, we really did make an effort to try and establish that rapport with the clients."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

In the Oval Office on Tuesday, the president joined Mr.Rasmussen in saying the NATO operation in Afghanistan is a team effort.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

He also led an intensive effort to increase African-American representation on the boards of America's largest corporations.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The authorization bill was framed as an effort to regularize a U.S.civilian aid program which has fluctuated over the years depending on regional events.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Mitchell,a former Senate Majority Leader, led a successful U.S.mediation effort on Northern Ireland in the 1990s.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Other senators are joining Schumer in an effort to pass legislation to force the Obama administration to get tough with China on the currency issue.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

On Tuesday,private water companies agreed to provide free clean drinking water to the relief effort.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

And it requires clearly a more determined effort on the civilian and political sides.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

And Russia,the U.S.partner on strategic arms reduction and in the effort to convince Iran not to develop nuclear weapons, has not been at all happy about that.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

He was cited for his effort to promote a better relationship between the US and the Arab world and on the local level, with Chicago's Arab American community.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

In all,General Allyn says within the next few days there will be about 5,000 U.S.troops on the ground in Haiti, with another 5,000 on the ships supporting the effort.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

It also says there are generally positive trends on economic development, the rule of law, the provision of government services and Iraq's effort to expand its regional diplomatic contacts.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31