"You look for a banjo, then you look for a flat top guitar, got to have the stand-up bass, a fiddle works really well, and then you get the old mandolin in because a mandolin really has got some good sound to it too."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Bryan described the situation this way: "On one side of the debate stand the business interests of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

I won't stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

This here office will give a decree of divorce and stand on it, unless the Supreme Court says otherwise."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

But Johnson refused to stand aside in the face of radical attempts to seize all powers of government.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

His spinal cord had to be retrained to produce the muscle movements needed to stand and take assisted steps on the treadmill.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

But it is found most often in the people who stand outside what he calls "the loud world."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Visitors can stand at the top of the mesas and look into the dwellings almost hidden in openings of the rock walls.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

"But from where we stand, for the very first time, we are beginning to see glimmers of hope."

VOA: special.2009.04.17

As you stand inside the tunnel, you see the video images reflected many times in the mirrors.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

He would often stand on the deck of his ship, in the cold rain and fierce winds.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

A doll hung over a chair and a toy soldier occupied the little stand by the bed.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The effort to stand carried me into the Martian air to the height of about one meter.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

(Laughter) The longer you guys stand there, the longer it's going to take to unload this thing.

VOA: special.2009.03.22