its press freedom non-existent and demonstrations broken up by "repressive" security services - all that face-to-face with arguably the most powerful man in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

"I don't think at this stage, nobody knows whether BP will be forced to be broken up, whether it might actually end up being so weakened that it falls into the arms of somebody else."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"They are all hurtling around in space at 36,000 kilometers per hour and so even a 1mm piece of space junk can destroy or damage a satellite because it all comes from either dead satellites, satellites which have broken up, satellites which had fuel left in them and exploded."

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

As the snow melted, workers were busy picking up broken branches, some as thick as fifteen centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Workers have been busy picking up broken branches, some as thick as fifteen centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

we are human beings,'". Khalaf says that before working on this book, she never thought much about the death penalty, but she was deeply touched by reading the stories of men who often grew up in broken homes and who,as one inmate says, "became lost souls as children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21