These flutes were cut from the naturally curved area of ivory from an animal -- the mammoth.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Branches or buds are cut from one plant and placed on a related kind of plant.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

India,for example, has promised to cut emissions by at least twenty percent from two thousand five levels by two thousand twenty.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

For years,fires from lightening and logger's campfires burned through the areas where the forest had been cut down.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

From a distance, they shot at each other. Close up, they cut each other with knives.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

We will cut that state off from the Confederacy, and give it to the alligators!"

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Then the United States would be cut off from trading directly with China.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Others built houses from blocks of earth cut out of the grassland.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

I felt alone,cut off from friends, high above the firm earth.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The wait was cut to fifteen days under pressure from Congress.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Supporters of the law in Arizona say it will help cut down on crime by illegal immigrants from Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

On the way home from school she takes a short cut through a barley field where she is startled by a neighbor, Mr.Harvey.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

Meanwhile,the best advice may come from doctors who are advising patients to cut back on salt voluntarily.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

"My understanding is that, from 2005 to 2020, China can cut four giga-tons to four-point-five giga-tons of CO2 emissions - that is huge,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Friday's report from the Labor Department says U.S.employers cut fewer workers in October than the prior month, but the overall economy still lost 190,000 jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

A woman named Carolyn phoned from the state of Illinois and said many seniors are worried that their Medicare benefits will be cut as part of health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Investors also fear the new administration will loosen fiscal policies, although EU nations from Greece to Britain are being forced to cut spending to shore-up Europe's weakening euro currency.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

On the other side of town, scientists are working on a genetic test they hope will cut the time it takes to diagnose MDR-TB from 70 days to two days.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

It arrested two Swiss businessmen, threatened to cut off crude oil deliveries, withdrew its money from Swiss banks, and told Swiss International Air Lines it could no longer fly to Tripoli.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Aside from the cut in aid, the State Department on Thursday also announced it would revoke the U.S.visas of an unspecified number of Honduran officials, who are backing Zelaya's replacement, Roberto Micheletti.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03