Nasser says this divorce is a win for a growing movement in Yemen to end the practice of early marriage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

The practice includes developing and testing new vaccines and drugs that might prevent or cure potentially-fatal human diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Supporters of the practice say medical tests involving chimps have helped save millions of lives worldwide.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

The practice, known as proprietary trading, generally shifts the risk to taxpayers while banks make money.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

human rights investigators applaud moves made by President Barack Obama in pledging to close Guantanamo Bay and stopping the practice of torture and extraordinary rendition.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

The Food and Drug Administration does not regulate the practice of medicine in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

Until now,only the European Union has followed the WHO's suggestion, banning the practice in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The insurance industry would come under new regulation under the bill, which would ban the practice of denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

These strong statements opposing the practice represent a new U.S.government position on the issue.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

It is still early to determine how well the practice is working and there are concerns the militias lack the training and equipment to counter the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

It keeps them healthy and helps them grow better. Public health groups have opposed the practice because bacteria continually exposed to antibiotics will eventually develop resistance to them.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"Countless, countless moments of awakening led me ultimately to the path of Islam, and within that, to the practice of Sufism, or Tasawuf,which for me is intricately united with Islam."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

Italian Marco Fosatti, who plays professionally for internationally renowned Inter Milan, says he was shocked by some of the things he observed from the window of the team bus on the trips between the hotel and the practice fields.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

But that idea failed. So the agency decided to use the plane for what was then a new practice: smokejumping.

VOA: special.2009.11.24