The roads to the festival site were choked with cars backed up for over 100 kilometers in all directions.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

The incursion was backed up by helicopter gunships and fighter jets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

The crowd outside the courthouse watched anxiously as one by one, each with a canvas-covered bed, backed up to a courtroom door and, out of the view of onlookers, deposited handcuffed defendants for a brief appearance before a judge.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

Smoking a cigarette outside Science Po's library one evening, said she backed the government's push for other grandes ecoles to open up.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The central bank also announced that it would purchase up to $750 billion of additional mortgage-backed securities, which lost value with the collapse of the U.S.housing market.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

The U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission may end up putting into quarantine hundreds of thousands of ballots until the major allegations stemming from the August 20 election are resolved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12