Gun activists are hoping to use that five to four ruling by the Supreme Court to challenge local and state gun control laws around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The ruling by Ukraine's Central Election Commission to not investigate allegations of vote rigging is a setback for pro-Western Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's campaign to challenge the results of the February 7 ballot.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

The ruling was unpopular. It came as Americans resisted big corporations like the First Bank of the United States, chartered by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Myriad is appealing the ruling. And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Their ruling, now reversed by the Supreme Court, was not unusual.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

But Barrasso says Democrats are making a mistake by ruling out the use of U.S.oil in some places.

VOA: standard.2009.05.23

Guinea's ruling military junta, led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, gave a far lower death toll of 57.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The ruling sets a legal precedent in Australia, where helping someone to take his own life is punishable by lengthy prison terms in some states.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Two states banned them outright. Those laws were rendered invalid for married women by a 1965 Supreme Court decision and the ruling was expanded in 1972 to cover all women.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The Tea Party movement takes its name and inspiration from the Boston Tea Party of 1773 when American colonists dumped tea into Boston harbor to protest taxes imposed by ruling Britain.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The new Japanese ruling party, which took power after 50 years of rule by its political opponents, ran on a platform that promised a more assertive posture toward the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Al-Sumariyah TV reported the complaints include coercion of voters by ruling-coalition party officials, exclusion of certain voters from electoral lists, and turning a blind eye to voters who were not registered to vote.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

Blake says the Obama administration held off on engaging India in a major way until the completion of elections in May that strengthened the hold on power by Prime Minister Singh's ruling Congress party.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

She says the court will rule on the validity of that poll in the coming week after inviting opposition candidates to present evidence of the claims of massive vote fraud by electoral officials to benefit ruling party candidate Ali Ben Bongo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04