It had been the first time people moved beyond their small planet into the huge solar system.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The city's urban transportation system recently launched the first of up to five hydrogen buses.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Of course,with signers,their first language has no written system at all, just hand gestures.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

After their first tests, the researchers cleaned the water system with chlorine dioxide.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

But the White House says he chose Ghana for his first presidential visit to Africa south of the Sahara because of what he considers its strong democratic system.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

"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

"The first thing is corruption, the education system, and we need more universities to be built in Namibia,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

that 'we tried initially, during the first three years of Gorbachev's tenure, to improve the system accelerate it but keep it intact.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

The first 3D home entertainment system, according to Panasonic, its manufacturer, was sold to Brad and Ashley Katsuyama in New York for $3,100.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Moscow also sees the missile-defense system as the first step in a worldwide American missile-defense program.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

Urbonas says communities there must focus first on developing a proper wastewater treatment system.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

His latest statement focused on the need to correct flaws in the aviation security system that allowed the would-be bomber to board the Detroit-bound flight in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

They carved the first hiking trail to the top of Mt.Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States and they built the first museum in the National Park system.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"What is incredibly positive about the way the demonstration has come together is it is different groups of workers,students, different people that are affected by the crisis that is kind of gripping the system, actually coming together to say that collectively we can fight back and argue to put out priorities first,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

The first step uses a bit of influenza DNA to get the patient's immune system to begin fighting off the flu, and then the protection is given a "boost" some time later by the second step, which can be either another bit of DNA or a conventional flu vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21