"We are there to protect the streets of Britain, we are there because al-Qaida poses a threat to us as well as it does to other countries and we are there because if al-Qaida took control again or had an influence in Afghanistan, under a Taliban government, then the people of this government would not be safe,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Astronauts would be chosen for the program from the best military test pilots who had education in science or engineering.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Cazeau had never spoken angrily to her or called her names or failed to give her everything she wanted.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

It was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

History has provided no evidence that Roscoe Conkling, Chester Arthur, or any other political leader had a part in the shooting.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Doctor Thompson said sixteen of the mummies had enough heart or blood vessel tissues remaining for the doctors to examine.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

A person who is ripped off has had something stolen, or at least has been treated very unfairly.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

At that point, they had not been American League or World Series winners since the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

But the judge questioned the remaining jurors and discovered that eight others had also gone online to research or discuss the case.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

The Maya poured the chocolate drink back and forth between two containers so that the liquid had a layer of bubbles,or foam.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

In nineteen-oh-nine, the Hersheys created the Hershey Industrial School for boys who had lost one or both parents.

VOA: special.2010.12.05