The events damaged public opinion of the once very trusted children's doctor.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Now,small trees dot the once barren schoolyard of a village elementary school, along with special trash cans for biodegradable waste.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

It's great!" Comic-con marketing director David Glanzer says the once-fledgling event has grown in recent years, thanks in part to Hollywood's love affair with action heroes.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

And since the incident, the once-warm ties between Israel and Turkey have chilled.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Adang Surahman, an earthquake engineering expert at Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology,says most of Jakarta's high-rises have been built to withstand what scientists refer to as the once in 500-year quake.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Hamas keeps tight control in the once lawless enclave.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

The vote,which has been postponed several times since 2005, is an attempt to find a lasting political solution to nearly a decade of internal conflict in the once stable West African nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

"So I think we need to brace ourselves for a new period." Analysts say the once political and militarily strategic alliance between Turkey and Israel was the most powerful alliance in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Pieter Hoff says the nice thing about the siphons is that, once collected, the water is not able to evaporate anymore.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

And so we can thank the American buffalo that once wondered the open plains for this meaning of the word buff.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

They walk along the Frijoles stream lined with green trees that once was the only water supply for the valley.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

But,once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered,or capped, to stop the flow of oil.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Once the clay dries, the glassmaker dips the form in a container of hot liquid glass until it is covered.

VOA: special.2009.09.16