The "girl" in all these books is Lisbeth Salander, an independent young woman with a very dark and secretive past.

VOA: special.2010.08.18

Boehringer Ingelheim has been working with the nonprofit organization PATH to offer a similar pouch for the past several years.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

The researchers noted a big change in the list of countries with the lowest adult mortality over the past forty years.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

They were breaking with past traditions to create a new look for a new decade,the sixties.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

He said that taking over the Philippines would be a dangerous break with America's past.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The path leads past an open field covered with huge rocks, through a group of tall spruce trees, and past a field of blueberry bushes.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

In the past,people were advised to stop severe bleeding with a tourniquet.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

In these therapies, patients might talk with a therapist about the past.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

"The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

And,it would be a shame to lose that sort of sense of the past, that sort of connectivity with the past.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The two Islamic militant groups have bombarded Israel with rockets in the past, exposing a strategic vulnerability.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

As a result, hundreds of popular shops have been forced to close ever the past week, with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

The LDP's popularity has fallen sharply in the past few years as it struggled with a weak economy and the aftermath of several corruption scandals.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

". At Friday's opening ceremony, several leaders noted past grievances with the United States while also expressing hope for a more productive and respectful relationship under President Obama.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

In a rare meeting with Republican Party lawmakers Friday, President Barack Obama decried the partisan politics of the past and urged both parties to work together on creating more jobs for Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

Widely respected for his craft, his private life however over the past 15 years was muddied with allegations of child abuse while he suffered under the weight of a huge financial debt.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

"The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

North Korea,as it has in the past, has reacted to the joint exercise with strong threats -- saying they may lead to a "sacred war" in which Pyongyang would be compelled to use its nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

We came up with a back story between the two of us about what things had gone on in the past and why she was so dedicated to him, so loyal and hurt for him so badly."

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27