"Mass" is the closest Mister Bernstein ever came to joining the styles of Broadway and classical music.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

But the man who was closest to what was happening, Michael Collins, could only listen.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Some have small,simple weddings and invite only their closest friends and family members.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

The closest point on the railroad was Sedalia,Missouri,more than one thousand kilometers away.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

"That the closest thing to Mars-the stuff-is from volcanoes mostly."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Most of the new president's closest friends were southerners.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Residents in the villages closest to the attacks have fled their homes to stay with relatives and friends nearby.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

According to the exit polling, only about one in ten voters favored her closest rival, Social Democrat lawmaker Algirdas Butkevicius.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

So far,the incumbent, President Hamid Karzai has a comfortable lead over his closest challenger, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

This really disturbs me,he says. The 1996 alliance between Israel and Turkey, made Ankara Israel's closest friend in the Muslim world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The May 6 general election is expected to be the closest in decades, with polls suggesting that no party will win an outright majority.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

But what's unexpected about that is that our closest evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas,don't do that.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

He relates a conversation with the former Soviet leader's closest advisor, Alexander Yakovlev, about how top Kremlin officials came to view the system as permanently flawed."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

His closest challenger, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has 28 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08