Governor Jay Nixon has agreed to shut off the lights in the dome of the state capitol building.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

You might also be able to stop an elephant or a hippopotamus by shining lights in their eyes.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

For the fourth year, people are being urged to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to the issue of climate change.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The men knew it was the middle of the day because the color of the sea changed from slate gray to emerald green, with gold lights.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Will you be turning off your lights this Saturday night to observe Earth Hour?

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Officials would order all lights in a city turned off to make it difficult for enemy planes to find a target in the dark of night.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

I left the lights on, closed the door and went back to my apartment.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Baby turtles hatching at night head to buildings' bright lights rather than the ocean, dying in the process.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

He called the work situation extremely dangerous. He said all the red lights were blinking, pointing to disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

We have to make everyone respect it,and this rally against the blue lights is exactly about that."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

It relies on a network of 80 peddlers who make a living out of pedaling to recharge the lights or cell-phones of their neighbors.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

A bullhorn sounds indicating timeouts. But because the players are deaf, backboard-mounted lights also flash to insure the players knew what was going on.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

"These people with blue lights are above the law." "They are not ready to follow it.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"Dogs that are very bonded to their handlers can witness when, if you are looking into someone's eyes and 'the lights go out' metaphorically speaking.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

to perform at the City of Lights Jazz Festival in Las Vegas,Nevada on April 24.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Determined to leave the cotton fields of rural Tennessee for the bright lights of Chicago, Koko packed her bags and moved there with her future husband Robert Taylor.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Now,theoretically, only the speakers and deputy speakers of the two houses of parliament may use the lights officially, but there are still dozens of cars on the Moscow roads that continue to exploit the advantages of a blue light on the roof.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

In recent weeks, hundreds of Muscovites have been strapping blue buckets to the roofs of their cars to mock the flashing blue lights that allow senior bureaucrats to drive into oncoming traffic and break the rules that everyone else has to obey.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19