Smithson wanted his money to be given to the United States to start an organization in Washington designed to increase and spread knowledge.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

Today many doctors order pain medicines for dying patients to be given before suffering takes hold.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

This extra money, or surplus, was to be given to the states.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

"Wilson has to be given the credit for delivering a major defeat to the Soviet Union at a time when the Soviet Union was a threat to the free world."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

Both administration officials and Congressional leaders say the terms of the aid plan are not out of the ordinary, and that they hope Senate clarifications to be given to the Pakistani foreign minister will ease the political furor in Islamabad.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

She urged that control of these substances be given to biologists who could make informed decisions about the risks involved.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Half the money from the festival will be given to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee for flood relief.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

And he said the people must be given a fair chance to approve or reject a constitution for statehood.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Instead,she said people with mental disabilities needed to be treated as useful citizens and given special education and training.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

He had so totally given himself to scientific studies that he could not be weakened by a second love.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

It can be given to children as young as one, which is earlier than vaccines currently used to fight meningitis epidemics in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

He permitted about eighty thousand government jobs to be taken from Republicans and given to Democrats.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The researchers say increased importance should be given to chronic diseases of the brain and mind.

VOA: special.2009.12.28