The American space agency's Dawn spacecraft began circling Vesta, a member of the asteroid belt that orbits the sun.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

Volvo was the first automobile manufacturer to offer the modern seat belt as a permanent addition to its cars.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Jeff was putting all the money they had received in a belt he tied around his body.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

But once you have succeeded in budgeting your money, you will have that skill under your belt.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

The scanner uses a high-speed camera placed over the conveyer belt that moves the produce along.

VOA: special.2011.06.07

But more than one hundred years passed before the current, widely used seat belt was developed.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

His three-point, lap and shoulder seat belt first appeared on cars in Europe fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

This device is made with a stick and a piece of cloth or a belt.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

The United States first recognized the invention of an automobile seat belt in eighteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

She did not use any safety devices, such as a seat belt or parachute.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

If you have less money than usual, you may have to tighten your belt.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

The most important was the discovery of a belt of radiation around the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

I reached down and pulled him up on the horse by his belt.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

We leave you with "Nothing but a Miracle" from the album "Bible Belt."

VOA: special.2009.09.04

The Swedish engineer won many honors for his seat belt.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

It was what we now call the Van Allen Belt.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Other inventors followed with different versions of the seat belt.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Sometimes you need a belt to hold up your pants.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Critics say her first album, "Bible Belt,"

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Claghorn called the device a Safety-Belt.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

"We will use the tremendous capabilities of this ion propulsion system to climb out of orbit around Vesta, travel for almost another three years through the asteroid belt to dwarf planet Ceres and then go into orbit around Ceres and undertake the same kind of measurements there that we'll be doing at Vesta.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

"In seat belt safety, we know people are going to speed and one of the ways that we've reduced traffic deaths is we've added seat belts."

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

He says the region's Baluch people have important ethnic and cultural differences from Pashtuns in the tribal belt that make them less willing to harbor militants.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

Kenyan national Wangari Maathai won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in the Green Belt Movement, an organization that engages in tree-planting activities and environment conservation.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

She's still hemorrhaging.Alice, make me a tourniquet. Your belt.

VOA: standard.other

"Where is your hat?Your belt? Your wee little boots?"

VOA: standard.2010.05.27