The first stop for his 12-meter boat, named "Finest Kind" is a channel right off the waterfront.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Iowa City is the first stop of many President Obama is expected to make in the coming months to promote the health care package.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

He says identifying human antibodies that will stop the ability of the virus to reinvent itself is the first step.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Then Barack Obama heads to Turkey for the last stop on his first trip to Europe as president.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

First,we stop to see one of the most famous sculptures in the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Defense officials say the secretary's first stop,Tokyo, will be partly an opportunity to get to know Japan's new leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

First it was warning shots, but when the Mavi Marmara wouldn't stop, these warnings turned into an attack.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Secretary Clinton's first stop will be in Kenya, where she is expected to address the U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Nairobi.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

His first stop in Iraq, at Talil Air Base,south of Baghdad, underscores the new focus of U.S.troops in advising and training Iraqi security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

It was the first time that Tehran has threatened to stop using the euro.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"The first step , he should persuade the Israelis to stop their settlement activities,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

She says the first step is to determine if Madni was on a stop-over there and if so, other legal action will be set in motion.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"So the first thing,I must admit, suffers is surgery: elective surgery.Stop."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

President Hamid Karzai, who unveiled his re-election campaign platform Monday, said if he is victorious he will invite the Taliban and other militants to a grand tribal council on the condition they first stop fighting the government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10