Gold ornaments are a traditional wedding present to brides and a gift of the precious metal during Hindu religious festivals augurs good fortune.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

The only one present to hear the sentence was Melaku Tefera, an organizer for the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, whose founder Birtukan Mideksa is serving a life term in connection with the 2005 violence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Each December,she has her students make posters about their own celebrations at home and present them to the class.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Plants with names like coast fiddleneck, common cocklebur,low larkspur and common groundsel all present risks to people or animals.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

She says her goal as an artist is to present a pop record to the world in a very interesting way.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Today we look up into the skies to explore the past and present of the tallest buildings in the world.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Or patients might be advised to think less about the past and more about the present and the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Or,he said human DNA really was present in the bone, but the bone was too small or low-quality to repeat the first results.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

"If you present it to them in a way that engages their imagination, that engages their playfulness, that engages their willingness, they come alive."

VOA: special.2010.06.03

By eighteen seventy-six he was ready to present Hires Root Beer at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

Smithsonian experts will have a chance to present their research and knowledge to the public.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

A cat will often catch a small animal and present it to its owner.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

live so much in the past that they are unable to face the present.

VOA: special.2010.01.10