Place the hands at the base of the breastbone just above the place where the lowest ribs join.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

As the river flowed past Vicksburg, it turned in sharply at the base of the cliff and then continued on to the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

At the base of the hair root is a small ball-like formation called a bulb.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Ball says adults should start off with exercises at the base of the pyramid, like walking or climbing stairs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

From the greenhouse, these orchids are carefully transported to the Botanic Garden, at the base of the U.S.Capitol.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

That was three years after the United States established a naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Soldiers of the new Confederate States of America shelled the Union base at Fort Sumter, built on an island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Mary later wrote it was at Sanderson that she received the base of her education.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

His first stop in Iraq, at Talil Air Base,south of Baghdad, underscores the new focus of U.S.troops in advising and training Iraqi security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Residents in Mogadishu say hundreds of Islamist insurgents, led by al-Shabab, fired weapons and mortars at an African Union base in the south of the city.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Legal experts also predict that defense counsel for Mohammed and the other defendants will raise the issue of their treatment in captivity at the U.S.Naval base at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Officials in Georgia say troops at a tank battalion at the Mukhrovani base about 30 kilometers from Tbilisi staged a rebellion aimed at overthrowing the government and also disrupting Wednesday's start of NATO military exercises in the republic.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05