Since the anti-trust law had been passed in eighteen ninety, few companies had been found guilty of violating it.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Wagon trains -- groups of wagons -- rode in four lines across the land when they passed through dangerous country.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Finally,in nineteen fifty-eight, Congress passed the Alaska Statehood Bill and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In eighteen thirty-six, she passed the teacher's test and began teaching near her home in North Oxford,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The Confederate Congress passed a bill in March of eighteen sixty-five to accept Negroes as soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

So in nineteen thirty-five, the Congress passed a new law called the National Labor Relations Act.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

In eighteen sixty-two, Congress passed legislation that gave thousands of hectares to each state.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

In eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed a law that barred Chinese immigration for ten years.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

In nineteen-fifty-six Congress passed a law called the Federal-Aid Highway Act.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

But Congress passed the Hawaii Statehood Bill in nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed the "Rivers and Harbors Bill."

VOA: special.2010.04.29

In eighteen sixty-two, Congress had passed the Homestead Act.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

South Korea warns any long-range launch by the North will be a violation of a U.N.resolution passed in 2006, when North Korea conducted long-range missile and nuclear weapons tests within months of each other.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

In 2006,the Russian parliament passed anti-extremism legislation that expanded the definition of extremism to include the slandering of a public official, hindering the work of authorities and involvement in hooliganism or vandalism for ideological, religious or ethnic reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

The members of Somaliland's Lower House of Parliament introduced a motion to impeach the president this weekend, which if successfully passed by the majority would require a two-thirds vote in the Upper House of Parliament to finish the impeachment.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07