As we approached the mountain, the hills and gulleys bore the appearance of having been created by some vast, fierce torrent rushing around the base of the peak, and tearing its way through the loose earth....

VOA: special.2010.04.26

On Saturday, Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri was spat on by an angry protester as he approached the Capitol.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Each of those topics - from adding and subtracting to fractions and decimals - is approached in three different stages.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

In the Gaza Strip, three Palestinians who approached the border fence were killed in an Israeli air strike.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

He leads a visitor to the hillside where he and his family fled as the tsunami approached.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

When it came to creating his illustrations, Mecklenburg says, Rockwell approached the job much like a filmmaker.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Despite billions being spent on aviation security since 911, security was breached on Christmas Day as the trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam approached Detroit.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

"Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom;

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

"Yes,a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict, and the West has often approached Africa as a patron and a source of resources, rather than a partner.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

There are also images of him as he approached middle age in the 1990's a time he gained the blessing of no less a moral authority than Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Calvary preschool is located near a series of hiking trails, so Peterson approached her colleagues and together they revised their three day teaching schedule so that every Friday is hike day.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

"As I've been going around the country talking about the book, I've been meeting young women who have approached me, other immigrant girls,who say, 'You know,we're still struggling with those same issues today."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Israel national police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says Monday was especially sensitive as 30,000 Jewish worshippers approached the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount at the start of the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

It was a rare sight Friday in the South Korean capital: Senior North Korean envoys approached a memorial to former President Kim Dae-jung with a giant funeral bouquet bearing the name of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"In terms of how the Scottish government approached this, then everything we have done was not about any deals or understandings or negotiations, it was done on the basis of Scots law, what is there within our system,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

In initial reports, senior Somali military and police officials said a foreigner approached government soldiers near the Villa Somalia presidential palace in Mogadishu early Wednesday, identifying himself as one of the French men abducted by gunmen at the Sahafi Hotel last month.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26