He was influenced to open the museum after a visit to Alcatraz prison in San Francisco,California.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

"I am happy." he said, "that I was the first one to open the door -- to let everyone know we could all do it."

VOA: special.2010.03.07

I had my head in and was about to open the lantern, when my finger slid on a piece of metal and made a noise.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Despite the rain,crowds gathered at the Bornholm Bridge, the first checkpoint in the Berlin Wall to open the night of November 9,1989.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

That did not happen. As long that does not happen, there is no way we are going to open the ports to Greek Cyprus,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

There,Ramadan says, the president has to pressure the Mubarak regime to open the political arena and stop using constitutional amendments to stifle real political competition.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

It was an express company whose stagecoaches carried passengers as well as gold,silver, and strongboxes stuffed with cash - helping to open the rugged West in the process.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

U.N.chief Ban Ki-moon told reporters he would go to the Danish capital next week to open the high-level segment that he expects will draw more than "I am encouraged and I am optimistic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Two senior U.S.diplomats went to Burma last week to open the dialogue and at a Manila news conference with Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, Clinton called the mission by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs Kurt Campbell and his deputy Scott Marciel "very successful."

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

He wanted no limits of any kind on the power of a national bank to open offices anywhere in the country.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

So in May,nineteen hundred, he announced that all the nations involved had given their approval to the "Open Door" policy.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Today environmental groups are fighting proposals to open protected areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But,in a development announced Wednesday, Britain says it is open to talks with the political wing of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30