But,once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered,or capped, to stop the flow of oil.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

On Monday,the foundation demanded the reinstatement of the video or it said it will stop giving money to Smithsonian exhibitions.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

The U.N.report was based,in part, on one hundred ten national reports on action taken to reduce or stop the loss of biodiversity.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

You might also be able to stop an elephant or a hippopotamus by shining lights in their eyes.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

That it was necessary to stop - for a while - all payments in gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

To stop this, President Jackson ordered gold or silver payments only for government land.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

If a friend keeps asking you to do something you do not want to do, you might ask him to leave you alone or "stop bugging me."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

I always tell them to stop horsing around or someone could get hurt.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The truce did not last long. In the weeks that followed, a number of attempts were made to stop or arrest the leaders of the Free State government.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Australia has set a November deadline to zero, for Japan to stop whaling in Antarctic waters, or face international court action.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

But she says important steps were taken that,she believes, will ultimately result in an agreement to stop or retard climate change.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Commuters also complained about other drivers' rude and aggressive behavior when traffic started to slow or stop.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"What next? Will the government pursue anything else or is it all going to stop right now?

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"The next stop is for epidemiologists and physicians who are trying to develop vaccines or drugs to take advantage of this knowledge in doing their work."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Spokesman Bereket Simon says Ethiopia has not and will not stop its military support to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government,or TFG, in its fight against a foreign-backed insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

Radia says the coalition is not trying to stop law enforcement from getting information to capture criminals or terrorists, but to give the average person the right to privacy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"They are having an impact, whether domestically or internationally, and you have got to account for it, and this is one of those break points where you stop and assess how is the administration doing?

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

"The new cap is good news." "Either we will be able to use it to stop the flow, or we will be able to use it to capture almost all of the oil until the relief well is done.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of 1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11