"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"We believe since a long time that peace is possible and the vision of two states is the best thing.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Since that time McKibben has written a dozen books that address climate change from many different angles.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Speaking before the House of Commons, Mr.Brown said since military operations in Iraq have ended, the time had come for a thorough inquiry into the war.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

The reported advances near the Afghan border come a day after army officials took journalists into the region for the first time since the operation started in mid-October.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Since the space was small and climate-controlled, staffers allowed only small groups in for a few minutes at a time, which was enough to cure most people's olfactory curiosity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Mr.Obama says the U.S.auto industry has added 45,000 jobs since General Motors emerged from bankruptcy, and Chrysler has reported a profit for the first time since the economic crisis began.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

The counterterrorism operation in Chechnya was instituted in 1999, when Russia sent troops for the second time since the collapse of the Soviet Union to put down a local separatist movement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

Three legislators were absent from the vote. It is the first time a government is ousted since the country came to existence, after the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia in 1993.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"I am convinced, from my conversations with General Stanley McChrystal and I'm grateful to him for the time he gave me there and even on the telephone since he understands the necessity of conducting a smart counterinsurgency in a limited geographic area,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

He wants his right to vote back. "Whatever rights that a normal citizen should have, I believe I should have it as well, since I've served my time and I'm back in society as a paying taxpayer, a community activist,or a person."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25