The Washington Nationals chose Strasburg with the first pick in the two thousand nine baseball draft.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The former Rookie of the Year was the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, just the sixth American to be taken first overall.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

In one activity, children try to get a robot arm to pick up a block and place it in a cup.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

"Typically the real estate sector leads the economy in a recovery, meaning that it tends to pick up before some other things.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

They pick wild blueberries growing on the rocky fields and red cranberries growing in wet bogs.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Rains have started to fall and are expected to pick up fully in the next two or three weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

"Originally I thought the tourism sector would pick up very well in the last quarter of last year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

These are various things you pick up in tits and bits, in pieces from each other.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Fans fill out brackets to pick the winners in the four 16-team regions of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"Most of the economies, including Thailand, showed a pick-up in the second quarter GDP, the Asian region was leading the turn around in the global picture,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Suddenly you pick up the newspaper, you see the images in the newspaper.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Every day,I'd pick pretty flowers and put them in her room for her, and she gave me the best giftanyone could ever get in the wide world.

VOA: standard.other

He was in Washington recently to pick up two awards - the Navy Distinguished Public Service Medal and the Hubbard Award from National Geographic, the Society's highest honor.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

So in addition to what each side's own intelligence services are able to pick up, the treaty provides additional information which has always been seen as being of great confidence-building value."

VOA: standard.2009.12.07