Near the end of the day, northern forces succeeded in organizing a stronger defensive line.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Bildt's remarks came at the end of a two-day meeting of EU foreign ministers that touched on a wide range of topics.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

After the end of apartheid in 1994, the new government proclaimed the date South Africa's Human Rights Day and made it a national holiday.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

It was a day for the history books... but not the end of the story.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

At the end of the day, the choice to continue as a destitute, international pariah or chart a new course is North Korea's alone to make.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

At the end of the day,he said, agriculture is a political issue.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

It's eight in the evening and the end of a hectic day at the house of Carolyn Maloney, Melissa Bean and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, all Democrats, in a neighborhood near the U.S.Capitol.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

Carolyn Maloney has grown children. Wasserman Schultz says the greatest bonus of having roommates is the friendship - and a warm environment to go back to at the end of the day.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

At the end of the day, at least in the U.S., there is little incentive to prepare a real dinner when fast food is so available - and so much more fattening.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

On the second day of her Moscow visit, at the end of a European tour, U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced concern at recent attacks on activists and reporters willing to challenge the Kremlin.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

"There is a realization at the end of the day that despite all the profits that Russia got from its sale of oil and gas over the last 10 years, that unless it modernizes its economy and reforms it, it will be a declining power."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"At the end of the day, the way to avoid a nuclear-armed Iran is to put together a package of incentives and disincentives that persuade the Iranian government that they would actually be less secure with nuclear weapons than if they had them,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24