DeMille's epic movies were based on the settling of the American West, Roman history or stories from the Bible.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

Until a railroad could be built, supplies were carried west in wagons pulled by horses or oxen.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Many of those who went west to search for gold stayed to become farmers or storekeepers.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Others moved farther west to find gold in Nevada or California.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

"To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

"Fishing is going to go on whether it be on the west side of the river or the east side of the river."

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

should Russia buy in the West because its own industry cannot do it, or should the country somehow try to manage on its own?

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade,or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

He says that everyone agrees in principle that rearmament is necessary, but he raises various questions: how and what; with the West,or against the West;

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

The Palestinians say the Israeli move is insufficient because it does not include disputed East Jerusalem or 3,000 homes already under construction in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

"Iran is trying to gain nuclear weapons. And if nothing serious, nothing dramatic will be done by the West,it will get there in a year or two,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

"What I think some of these terrorist group may have underestimated is that we in the west or in Russia,in this case, are perhaps not quite as soft as they might have first believed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

In the spring and summer,he says, he would expect the prevailing winds in Western Europe to come from the West or Southwest - which would mean that the ash would be pushed towards the Arctic or Siberia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

"Our presence in Afghanistan only fuels the insurgency there, and it is an insurgency that is based now upon the fact that people are occupied, as opposed to having any ideological ties with the Taliban or with al-Qaida or any hatred of the West,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Frictions between Islam and the West often flare up - like when when a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed - or when Muslim girls in Europe went to school wearing veils, or new minarets in Switzerland were banned.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

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

"When you have a situation like this occur, you are bound to have a situation down the line where there could be a shortage in food, which can also trigger other negative situations, such as malnutrition, for example, or insufficient food for cattle, which is also another important economic sector in West Africa,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.08