From the day it was decided that the sentence of her lover should be decided in the arena, she had thought of nothing but this event.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

It asked filmmakers to create short videos that completed the sentence "Democracy is ."

VOA: special.2009.10.02

"I would like to see the mountains," I said, and then my dream began to form along with the sentence, "I might,I want to be a doctor."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

The press and other sources,he notes, speculated that the sentence could have been seven years or more, so three years is not all that bad.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

But a short time later, the government announced that the country's leader, Senior General Than Shwe, had ordered the sentence commuted to 1 1/2 years under house arrest.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

Noriega's attorney, Olivier Metzner, told journalists that the sentence was severe.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

The only one present to hear the sentence was Melaku Tefera, an organizer for the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, whose founder Birtukan Mideksa is serving a life term in connection with the 2005 violence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

And the high court is going to look at it and it is very strange in that for the first time in Iranian judiciary that they are having the high court session just (a) few weeks after the sentence was issued.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

But in the United States, the main idea of each paragraph should be in the first sentence.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

People often add an apostrophe to "its" in a sentence like "The group made its decision."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Some southern lawmakers even proposed the death sentence for anyone who spoke against slavery.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The offense may be as small as a sentence copied from a book.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and received a suspended sentence.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

"I was trying," he said, "to put the history of mankind in one sentence." Later he said, "I am still trying to do it, but now I want to put it all on the head of a pin."

VOA: special.2010.01.03