This time, when only legal votes were counted, many of the pro-slavery candidates were defeated.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

His official pay during that time was only thirty-two thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Only about fifty-eight thousand people lived there at the time.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Army commanders say it is only a matter of time before the Taliban-style group would be completely destroyed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

He tested the free-diving self-propelled submersible - one of only two in existence at the time - on increasingly deep dives off the California coast.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

He had only the 17th-fastest qualifying time, but he emerged from the four rounds of group racing to take the title, edging Canadian Mike Robertson at the finish.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Since the space was small and climate-controlled, staffers allowed only small groups in for a few minutes at a time, which was enough to cure most people's olfactory curiosity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

and went on to sell more than 100,000 copies of the song at a time when there were only about That song is regarded as the first-ever country music hit, and Loudon Wainwright performs it under the title "The Deal" on his Grammy-nominated CD.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24