The U.N.Office on Drugs and Crime says Kenya has agreed to be the first nation in the area to try Somali piracy suspects.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

These prophets delivered their oracles at critical junctures in Israel's history, in the nation's history, so their words are only going to make sense to us if we first understand the particular historical crises that they are addressing.

这些告知发表预言，总是在一些关键的转折期,在以色列历史中，国家的历史中，因此他们的话只对我们有意义,如果我们首先懂得某些特别的历史性危机,先知们所提到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Last week, Mexico became the first nation to borrow from the I.M.F.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Today we tell about the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, who died earlier this week.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

It was the first reported drop in American cancer cases and deaths since the nation began collecting such information.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Opposition Republican leaders agree on the need to raise the borrowing limit by August second or risk the nation's first default.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

Faith Lapidus tells about her life. Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to lead the Cherokee Nation, based in Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

He united the nation. And he took the first steps that destroyed the institution of slavery in America.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Mister Obama has dealt with many issues since becoming the nation's first African-American president on January twentieth.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

She was the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, one of the largest American Indian tribes.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

President Bush offered best wishes to Barack Obama, who will be the nation's first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Michelle Obama said for the first time the nation will have goals and measurable outcomes.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

George Washington, the nation's first president, had a round barn in the seventeen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

The first rail line to cross the nation was completed in eighteen sixty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

If confirmed, she would be the first Hispanic on the nation's highest court.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

It was the nation's first election since two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

He became that nation's first professor of theory of physics.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

During his first tenure, Mr.Leterme was unable to overcome deep divisions between the nation's Flemish and French speaking communities.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Six years ago, South Africa won its bid to become the first African nation to host a football World Cup.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

And many say the beleaguered nation is soon to have the first capital city without any clean drinking water.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The first ever state by state analysis of U.S.bioscience education found a wide disparity among the nation's schools.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

This was the first Summit of the Americas to be held in a Caribbean nation, and was notable for a virtual absence of protesters.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

While much attention is being paid to South Africa as the host of Africa's first World Cup, the nation also made history International AIDS Conference.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Earlier this year, Maldives pledged to become the world's first carbon neutral nation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Serbia fans cheer their team's first World Cup appearance as an independent nation.

VOA: standard.2010.06.13

Also Sunday,Iraq reported the nation's first death from the H1N1 virus.

VOA: standard.2009.08.09

"For the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant, the largest of its kind in the entire nation, will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"I call on all supporters of both ZANU-PF and MDC to unite as all Zimbabweans (Applause) to put the interests of our nation and our people first and to work for a new Zimbabwe.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

In the men's 100-meter hurdles, Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados nosed out Terrence Trammell of the United States by one-100th of a second to win his nation's first-ever World Championship gold medal in a national record time of 13.14 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21