So I know.I saw the whole thing from the beginning, from the very day when the little boy here met with the accident."

VOA: special.2010.05.15

It was the beginning of a career with the company that lasted about forty years.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

He made a fire, beginning with small pieces of wood and adding larger ones.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Drug-related violence in Mexico has killed more than seven thousand people since the beginning of last year -- often with guns bought in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

He told his audience everything, beginning with his discovery of his wife's love affair with his business partner, and ending with his complaints about her expensive dinner parties.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

"One of the farmers we've been working with from the very beginning is a guy named Rusty Lee."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

It was the mass-issuance of mortgages to consumers with poor credit ratings that led to a rash of mortgage defaults and home foreclosures beginning in late 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

"And we are going forward and we will come out at the end of October, beginning of November, with this new approach because something has to be changed."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Despite Pakistan's public objections, the United States has sharply increased the number of drone strikes in the last year, with more than 40 since the beginning of 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

One day after Cuban President Raul Castro called for open dialogue with the United States, Mr.Obama had this to say: "The United States seeks a new beginning with Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"The American people are running out of patience, and with 114 members of the House voting this week against the war , Congress is beginning to catch up to the public."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Some farmers who are not in the program have begun adopting organic farming techniques in hopes of joining small organic cooperatives that are beginning to negotiate long-term contracts with European organic and fair-trade wholesalers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

Whether anything happens remains to be seen. President Medvedev said on Tuesday that no one is dizzy with success over Russia's struggle with corruption and that Russians are at the very,very beginning of the road in the fight against it.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

"I think I learned the skill of really staying focused and staying with a project, because at the beginning our business was not very popular, we were not selling very much, but I learned to stick with it and to not give up,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04