Professor Ahmed Abdul-Karim Saif, who teaches at the University of Sanaa, says that both the government and the Houthi rebels are trying to "improve their positions" in the build-up to what appears to be an imminent ceasefire.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

"I guess it was a process of waking up to what I was actually doing and just as I am helping set up all these memorials out here, I think back to some of the things that were part of my day to day life in the military even before I got to Iraq, just how some of our battle cries would be things like kill them all."

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

What all this adds up to is a big responsibility for parents to consider what's really in a name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

From time to time, Union officers would ride up the hill to report what a great victory their troops were winning.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

"That's what really opened up the experience for me, to prove how bad it is to really text and drive."

VOA: special.2010.07.01

So I picked her up and I took her to the couch and I just started talking to her about what happened.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Amanda says she does not want children to ever give up because they do not know what they can do until they try.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

Then she got up from the floor and came to find out what I was doing.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

He said the Earth is hiring and it was up to them to join together and do what is needed to help save the planet.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

He said he was sorry for what he saw as political pressure by President Obama to force BP to set up a claims fund for victims.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

I do whisper the description to him sometimes, though you can see people around don't understand and they're watching us like 'What the ...?'" "'Tell that woman to shut up!'

VOA: special.2010.03.01

What brings us together in between is up to us.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

We simply cannot do it. And so as a consequence, what I am doing is I am being briefed consistently, my national security team is fully up to speed on it.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

"Keeping everybody up to speed with what we were doing, what we were learning, what the key issues were.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29