Originally intended for a man, the role of Salt went to Jolie, who infuses the super spy with feminine menace.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

A major meeting of key administration and military officials on Afghanistan, originally scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed until Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians, a strict Protestant sect originally from what is now the Czech Republic and eastern Germany.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The managers of Union Carbide, who have been granted bail, were originally charged with culpable homicide, which could have resulted in a harsher sentence.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

According to migr radio, Ayatollah Karroubi told supporters at the cemetery to head towards Tehran's Grand Mosalla mosque, where a mourning ceremony had originally been planned.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

The B-1 is a strategic bomber that was not originally designed to provide direct air support to ground forces, which was the mission in this instance.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

Radio-television producer Daniel Rocha, originally from Colombia, is enjoying a moment of health.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Weeping relatives stood outside an Addis Ababa courthouse Monday hoping for a glimpse of loved ones arrested April 24 in what officials originally called a roundup of suspected coup plotters.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

And secondly Israel, even though itself, its people originally suffered a great holocaust - the great genocide of World War II - has not recognized it, again for strategic reasons, its connection with Turkey."

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

The stop in Riyadh was a late addition to an itinerary that was originally slated to begin in Cairo with an address to the world's Muslims a speech Mr.Obama has been promising since last year's presidential campaign.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Clinton says the broad skepticism among Iranians about the electoral process and the apparent re-election of President Ahmadinejad is unlikely to be quelled by Monday's announcement by Iran's Guardian Council that a partial recount upheld the originally-announced outcome.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29