Rudolf found it hard to believe that there was someone in the world who did not know what violin was.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

A young man who worked hard and learned new skills could rise quickly to better and better jobs.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

They said any man who worked hard could find five to ten dollars worth of gold a day, and sometimes even more.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

During hard times, the grange organized political action groups to help elect officials who were friendly to farmers.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Would you want a doctor who got high marks in medical school just for trying really,really hard?

VOA: special.2009.03.12

They told the story of a poor farm boy who educated himself and, through hard work and honesty, had become a candidate for president.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

He is considered nosey. Someone who keeps his nose to the grindstone works very hard.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

"Today,in the face of violence from those who would only destroy, Iraqis took a step forward in the hard work of building up their country.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

He said, "He was a lazy man who never worked hard."

VOA: special.2010.06.26

"For people who were looking for a dramatic break in American foreign policy it is rather hard to identify it,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

"And I am grateful for their decision as well as all the Democrats who have worked so hard to make this reform a reality."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

"There are so many people who work so hard everyday but they can't realize the benefits of that hard work to the extent that they should."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"Here you are facing a very hardened sort of fighters, who are die-hard,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

He is one of many who have flocked to the Kangari hills in southern Sierra Leone to find small fortunes in the hard graft of alluvial gold mining.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

But for the young who make up most of the population, learning this history has been hard to do - schools have up to now just not taught it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19