He says changing the constitution to allow retired soldiers to run in June elections better reflects what he calls Mauritania's "new political and cultural reality."

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

The plane crashed as it tried to land amid heavy fog, killing all onboard - President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and a delegation that included Poland's top military leaders as well as many political and cultural figures.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

So if you have a mass killing of an ethno-religious group, carried out by a government in order to eliminate those people from their homeland, or to destroy their political and cultural potential - that is,by the conventional definition and most scholarly definitions, a genocide."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

She shows how vampire stories help express people's cultural, social and political beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

The non-binding resolution expresses "very serious concern" at continuing reports of "systematic,widespread and grave violations of civil, political,economic,social and cultural rights,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

In the last couple of months, the PKK - Turkish Kurds fighting for greater cultural and political rights since 1984 - have been steadily stepping up their attacks.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17