It needed much more power than the rockets used to launch the one-man Mercury and the two-man Gemini flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

American-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in late two thousand one, after the terrorist attacks on the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

Congress gave him power over compensation of the twenty-five highest-paid employees at seven companies most indebted to taxpayers.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

But another law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act of Nineteen Thirty-Five, helped labor unions to increase their power.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

I lay awake nights,wishing to find the perfect lens - an instrument of great magnifying power.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

The story of the power-hungry King Richard the Third is another very popular play by Shakespeare.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

These Taos Indians live in the ancient adobe rooms as their ancestors did centuries ago -- without any running water or electric power for lights.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

And,with the Philippines, that power is -- and forever will be - the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

He says Ikeda's work was made before the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

The results of the Boxer Rebellion and the Spanish-American War made clear that the new century would have a new world power: the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

It ruled a wide-reaching empire. This week in our series, we look at how British power gave way to American influence after World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.08.04

Populists wanted producers to have some of the political power traditionally held by non-producers.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

In the words of poet Walt Whitman: "It is for the interest of mankind that America's power and territory should be extended -- the farther,the better."

VOA: special.2009.02.19

And pro-slavery extremists held power in only a few states of the deep South.

VOA: special.2009.06.18