The waters surrounding the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch are known as the North Pacific Gyre.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The explosion was a signal for all Confederate guns surrounding the fort to open fire.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

That explosion would signal the other guns surrounding the fort to open fire.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Others said it added to the mystery surrounding the writer.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

They camped in tents surrounding the Washington Monument.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Cracks are appearing in the wall of silence surrounding the secret practice of extraordinary rendition as prisoners are coming forward to tell of their ordeals.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

So,all the normal rituals surrounding the funeral of a person would still be preserved.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Police adopted similar tactics early Sunday in Lahore, surrounding the home of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and deploying scores of officers in riot gear throughout the city.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

No censorship." Looted businesses in Kyrgyzstan attest to lawless citizens just as high-caliber bullet holes in the fence surrounding the Kyrgyz White House attest to lawless government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Former footballer and Deputy General-Secretary of the Union, Thulaganyo Gao Shubelwe, says footballers can play a positive role in conveying the safe-sex message because of the aura surrounding them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Haitian police officers that remain on the streets have been overwhelmed by the lawlessness surrounding them, at times resorting to shooting in the air to try to restrain the populace.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

Roads surrounding the Metropark Hotel in Wanchai district were closed Friday in the middle of the evening rush hour as the government vehicles prepared to transport nearly 300 people from the hotel.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Authorities are taking no chances. Although they have announced there will be no red zone, an alcohol ban will come into force starting Tuesday in the center of Rome and the area surrounding the stadium.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

(Recording) Toure says civil society groups face many challenges to changing the way the epidemic is spread including finding sustainable financing, integrating the work of anti-tuberculosis campaigns, reducing the stigmatization and discrimination surrounding the disease, improving access for treatment, and boosting efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

President Obama has said that the national government "seems very detached from what's going on in the surrounding community."

VOA: special.2009.02.21