Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his commander in Charleston, General Beauregard, to destroy the fort before the food could arrive.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

In March, the government ordered Chrysler to cut costs and form an alliance with Italian carmaker Fiat by April thirtieth.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

said the Justice. "Roll it up," the man ordered, "and stick it in the end of this here gun barrel.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

In two thousand seven, officials ordered Comcast to stop interfering with file-sharing programs used by its Internet customers.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The woman of action was ordered to remain quiet for months in a dark room, or become blind.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

In thirteenth century Italy, the government ordered glassblowers in Venice to move to the island of Murano.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

The state governor freed her, but only after the United States Senate ordered an investigation into conditions in the West Virginia coal fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

One of the men turned to another and ordered: "Go in there,Stumpy,and see what you can do."

VOA: special.2009.06.06

President McKinley, without waiting for the Senate to act, ordered the American military government in Manila to extend its control throughout the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

In one of his first official actions, he ordered the closure of the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

If he takes the medicine his doctor ordered early in his headache, it controls the pain.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

President Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the Philippines to command American forces in the South Pacific.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The governor then ordered state soldiers to seize the other two forts in Charleston Harbor.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

This is Brook Levin, a retired teacher who ordered the dessert at Buddakan in Philadelphia.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

And he ordered the state flag raised over all other federal property in the city.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

The permit ordered all Soviet citizens to help her while she was in the country.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

More information about adobe can be ordered from EnterpriseWorks/VITA, an anti-poverty group in Washington, D.C.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

He said he has ordered a report in thirty days on what,if any, additional safety measures and technologies should be required to prevent future spills.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

So,in the spring of eighteen forty-six, he ordered American soldiers to the Rio Grande River.

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Grant called in his supply officer and ordered him to feed the Confederate army.

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In nineteen fifty-six,a committee of the United States Congress ordered him to give evidence.

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When riots broke out in Havana, he ordered the battleship Maine to sail there.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Perhaps Emperor Norton's most famous decree ordered the city government to build a bridge from the city of Oakland to a small island in San Francisco Bay.

VOA: special.2009.12.14