In its 1973 "Roe versus Wade" decision, the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that individual states may not ban abortion, but it did not end the political battle over the issue.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

This bill doesn't take sides. What it says is that it is inappropriate to have a federal rule that says state governments with their own money can't make these decisions or that individual investors can't press their companies to do it,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Sahin says researchers increasingly realize that individual parts of the brain have multiple functions." because here's an example of one relatively small part of the brain that's doing three very different things at three different times, but all within the space of a quarter of a second,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Mister Karzai disputed that. The Afghan and Pakistani leaders brought big delegations to Washington for individual and joint meetings with American officials.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Having a social connection with a lonely person increased the chances that another individual would feel lonely.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

The new generation of American coaches and players is building a tradition of soccer that is as individual as each of their stories.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

I knew that this was bigger than any one individual and I would have to do whatever I possibly could to control myself."

VOA: special.2009.04.05

She believed that the individual has a right to exist for his or her own self.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

That is,they should be testing for individual needs,interests, abilities,and not to compare one student to another.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Alzheimer's affects memory and personality those qualities that make a person an individual.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

That kind of x-ray scanner would have located the package that this individual had on the flight to Detroit.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

"There was simply throughout the law enforcement community never information that would put this individual on a 'no-fly' list,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

So we combined data across nine individual studies, so we have a lot more power than previous studies that looked at this.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30