"Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy for Iraq and for a transition to full Iraqi responsibility.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Presumably,he will be taking the oath of office shortly, and become the thirty-sixth president of the United States."

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The government built the Florida base shortly after the discovery of Soviet missiles about three hundred kilometers away, on the island of Cuba.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The spill comes shortly before the start of the fishing season for crab, shrimp and oysters.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Kennedy was shot and killed in Los Angeles shortly after giving his victory speech.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

He was born in Saginaw,Michigan, in nineteen fifty and became blind shortly after birth.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

A third child was killed in a train accident shortly before Pierce was inaugurated.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

He said eight of them showed signs of autism shortly after receiving the vaccine.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Shortly after that, Dr.King organized the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

It did so shortly after Lincoln's election in November of eighteen sixty.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

On January twenty-eight nineteen eighty-six, shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after take off.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

Shortly after, President Buchanan sent Congress a similar message.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Borlaug's family released a statement shortly after he died.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Shortly after the Iraqi parliament approved the new election law, President Barack Obama went before reporters at the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08