This week,actors Matthew Broderick and Anika Noni Rose announced nominations for the twenty-eleven Tony Awards.

VOA: special.2011.05.06

This time,with a thundering roar, Gemini Six rose into the air.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

This house was not covered by wild rose bushes.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Footwear sales rose by about 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, with exports to several markets, including China,up.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

This is the 121st annual Rose Parade, and it will be seen on television by millions around the United States and in many other countries.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

In fact,U.S.and NATO military commanders say insurgent violence rose nearly 60 percent between the first six months of this year, compared to last year the highest level of violence since 2001 when the Taliban government was ousted by US.led forces.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

But I think as time went on after the Rose Revolution, I think he wanted to perpetuate this kind of system in which there was really absence of checks and balances, no real opposition included in the political process very much sort of governing by committee of the inner circle, of loyal allies around the president.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01