Some local groups continued to meet.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

But,when asked about the prospect of negotiating with the Taliban, Blair indicated that some local Taliban elements might be approachable.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

While the United Nations has not identified the gunmen, some local media reports from Somalia said the attackers were members of the Islamist al-Shabab militia, which controls much of southern and central Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

We spent some time in the lively Bywater and Faubourg Marigny areas to hear local musicians performing in clubs and drinking places.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Some members of the local community had strong feelings about the death and worked to make sure the skeleton stayed on the island.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

Some communities protest the arrival of a Wal-Mart store because they say it endangers smaller local businesses.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

By that time,he says, there could even be some markets with no printed local paper each day.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

Many stores sell clothing. Some stores sell the works of local Key West artists.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Some called it "socialized education" or federal interference in local schools.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Some of the protesters were from a local high school.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

Some young people are taking care of local parks.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Some say local leaders.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

"Recently however, they have tried to raid some administrations in the localities,and that attempt had been effectively defeated by the local militia."

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"There are Taliban and there are Taliban. I think that some of them have fairly local issues, which have to be handled locally.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"We've poured some concrete on site and then vehicles we get from a local scrap yard.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

She explains that she voted for herself as in her words "Lithuania's local political establishment is so boring for people, that they want to see some new faces."

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

And he knows no landfill liner system is completely leak-proof, meaning there is some possibility that the industrial quantities of waste coming from the oil cleanup could pollute local underground water supplies.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

The prime minister said crucial to that strategy is building up Afghan local and national government institutions and practices to make sure Afghan President Hamid Karzai is able to tackle some major issues.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

Federal agents and local El Paso authorities have targeted the Barrio Azteca gang in this investigation, detaining some two dozen gang members on warrants issued against them for other crimes and also questioning them for leads in the case.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Some of the local residents in Searchlight did not like the fact that outsiders had come in to target Senator Reid, who faces a difficult re-election bid this year, in part,because of his work in guiding the divisive health care reform bill through Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28