Toyota is Japan's biggest company and in two thousand eight it passed General Motors as the world's biggest carmaker.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

They passed a law saying no southerner could vote if he had taken part in the rebellion against the Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

There have been laws that have been passed, and many police officers and other authorities are being trained about this.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

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

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Those were the years of the great wave of European immigration, before the United States passed restrictive immigration laws.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

He suggested that individual organisms changed in reaction to their environment and passed on these traits to the next generation.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

She hated her with all the intensity of the blood passed to her through long lines of cruel ancestors.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Congress passed several other bills giving the federal government power to protect the rights of blacks in the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Millions of immigrants coming to America passed the statue as ships carried them to the immigration processing center on Ellis Island.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Also this week, the House of Representatives passed a major bill to rewrite financial rules and add consumer protections.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Kallawaya is passed down within families from father to son as a way of protecting the special knowledge of healers.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

The Agriculture Department has a soybean germplasm collection, a collection of genetic material passed from one generation to the next.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.

VOA: special.2009.01.17