They promised to protect each other from the growing threat they saw from another former ally, the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

To drink from this river would allow the fallen angels to forget their fallen state, to forget the fact of their fallen-ness from their more blissful former condition.

喝忘川之水让那些堕落天使,忘记他们的堕落的处境，忘记自己堕落这一现实,忘记自己是从幸福天堂堕落的事实。

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So before I just leave the subject of immortality, let me conclude with some words of wisdom from a former Miss USA contestant.

所以在结束永生这个话题之前，我就用,前美国小姐参赛者的箴言总结它吧。

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John Glenn, the former astronaut who was then a senator from Ohio, put it this way: "I know the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

She says the former president and his health minister scared people away from the drugs which suppress H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

In South Carolina,for example, the new governor was a former army officer from the state of Ohio.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Former Nuyorican board member Bob Holman brought slam to the Caf from Chicago,Illinois, where it was born.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

He says the idea came from England, America's former colonial power.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Liam Moonguaklang is a former rural resident back on a visit from the United States, where she runs a Thai restaurant.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

In the 1990s he met former President Nelson Mandela, who praised him publicly in this broadcast from the archives of national television.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

Some critics have included former U.S.officials, who accuse members of his family of profiting from the opium trade.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Pressure from the president's liberal Democratic base is likely to have an impact on that decision, says former assistant secretary of state Teresita Schaffer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

His policies are no different from the war-seeking policies of former President George W. Bush.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

The United States withdrew its ambassador from Damascus in 2005 following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, in which Syrian officials were implicated.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

The demonstrators, known as the "red shirts", are supported by exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted from power in a 2006 military coup.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

The protest in New York brought together former political prisoners and other Iranians in exile with residents from around New York and the rest of the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.07.25

Next month,the former Alaska governor heads to Arizona to campaign for her former running mate, Senator John McCain, who faces a challenge in the Republican primary from former Representative J.D.Hayworth.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Former French leader, General Charles de Gaulle, had withdrawn from the military command in the 1960s, concerned that France would lose its military independence to rising superpower, the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Such an option exists under Scottish law, and Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, announcing Megrahi's release Thursday, said the convicted bomber and former Libyan intelligence officer is near death from prostate cancer.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

We will win the World Cup." The Ghana team bus paraded from the southeastern township of Soweto to the northern suburb of Melrose Arch, and the team later met former President Nelson Mandela at his home.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Clinton,in a talk with reporters here, said she has been involved in intensive telephone diplomacy with President Karzai and his main election rival, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, and is encouraged by what she has heard from the parties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Final results from Mauritania's electoral commission show former General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz winning more than half of the ballots cast making him president without a second round of voting in which his main political opponents had vowed to unite against him.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

Nkunda claimed he was fighting to protect ethnic Congolese Tutsis from the FDLR, another rebel group made up of remnants of the former Rwandan military and militias that carried out the genocide here Many Tutsis, both in Congo and in Rwanda, still see Nkunda as a hero.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18