Each group has a set of traditions about how new people become official members.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

This about ensuring we have a set of reasonable constraints to protect people's civil liberties."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

A number of people have taken over a children's climbing set. They've set up sheets and tents and what look like make shift sleeping bags.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

Clinton's India visit, which began late Friday in Mumbai, has been filled with reminders of the Pakistani-based terrorist attacks on that city last November that killed 166 people and set back relations between the two South Asian powers.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Does the Prime Minister not understand that the purpose of an inquiry is not just to produce a set of conclusions, but to allow the people of Britain to come to terms with a mistake made in their name,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

No,it's not going to be that. But it does need to basically provide the common talking points so that allied leaders, allied presidents and prime ministers, have on one sheet of paper,one page, a set of common talking points that they can speak from to their people to explain why the alliance matters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11