A John Hancock is a person's signed name a signature.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

It was signed in 1991 by U.S.President George Herbert Walker Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Finally,President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution in May of nineteen fourteen that officially established Mother's Day.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

On Tuesday,Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new budget to solve his state's deficit.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

Mister Shaw signed up at the group's office in Manassas,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Gazprom,Russia's gas export monopoly, also had signed a deal to sell China 70 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

China,Kuwait and South Korea are among the countries that have signed deals with Cambodia's government to create large plantations.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

The agreement to be signed Thursday replaces the START-1 treaty, which U.S.President George H.W.Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed in 1991.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

She also signed an agreement boosting U.S.assistance to fight HIV-AIDS in Angola from $7 million to $17 million.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

Decades after the dangers of tobacco first became known, the strongest anti-smoking legislation in U.S.history has been signed into law by the president.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

In 1972 he signed an agreement to end Sudan's first north-south civil war, which began in 1955.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

And so, at day's end, the University of Alabama inTuscaloosa had been desegregated, and students Jimmy Hoodand Vivian Malone had been signed upfor summer classes.

VOA: standard.other

The START-1 treaty was negotiated in the 1980s,signed by U.S.President George Herbert Walker Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991,and came into force in 1994.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Democrats and Republicans who signed the letter say a key goal is to encourage a thorough debate, before the U.S.potentially becomes mired in an even longer military commitment.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

That results from last year's landmark agreement signed on civil nuclear cooperation.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

The court has urged all countries, including those like Eritrea that have not signed up to the ICC's Rome Statute, to arrest President Bashir if the opportunity arises.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Democrat Party lawmakers and health reform advocates celebrated in the East Room of the White House, as President Obama signed historic legislation to overhaul the U.S.health care system.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

He says he signed it to try and prevent further disintegration of the country's infrastructure and was prepared to take the political risk to try and move Zimbabwe forward.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Before taking questions from tribal leaders, the president signed a memorandum asking every cabinet agency to give him a detailed plan to improve the government's relations with American Indians.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

"I'm up to $375 so far." OhioHealth Wellness spokeswoman Lisa Meddock says half of the 9,000 employees at the company's five hospitals have signed up for the incentive program since it began in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

The Copenhagen conference was to come up with a binding agreement to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which mandated emissions cuts, but was not signed by some of the world's biggest polluters, including the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Proctor and Gamble signed on as a U.S.Olympic Team sponsor last September, but it was only last month that the U.S.-based company announced it would sponsor a P&G Family Home at the Vancouver Olympics for TEAM USA.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20