He believed that Americans -- North and South -- would accept the decision as the final word in the dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Lincoln admitted that, even if the dispute could be settled peacefully, there were those who wanted to see the Union destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

But the Group of Twenty summit also comes as the United States and China face a growing trade dispute.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

But he also says they dispute the common belief that Chinese education is centered on repetition and memorization.

VOA: special.2010.12.16

Some reports say the competition between the two advice columns led to a dispute between the twin sisters.

VOA: special.2011.04.24

He asked them to keep in mind that a third group was involved in their dispute: the public.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In New York, the United Nations secretary-general reacted to a dispute over e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia in England.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

But some of Fred Allen's funniest programs were about his supposed longtime dispute with another radio star,Jack Benny.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The treaty also guarantees that Antarctica will continue to be used for peaceful purposes and will not become the object of international dispute.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

And Tyler quickly signed it. But a dispute arose on the issue of a new national bank.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

During these years around eighteen fifty, the people of the United States were becoming more and more involved in the dispute over slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Many Whigs in the House of Representatives opposed the plan, because they feared that the political dispute over slavery would destroy the Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

If you dispute this,and declare that men are still willing to serve in the army, then prove it by volunteering yourselves in large numbers.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The treaty also does not recognize, dispute or establish claims of territorial ownership by a country.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

But a few months before the election, a labor dispute exploded into an important campaign issue.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Calhoun said that for a long time he had believed that the dispute over slavery -- if not settled -- would end in disunion.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The public saw the elections as a sign of hope that reasonable people might find a way to settle the bitter dispute over slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

President Lyndon Johnson was in office and the Vietnam War was an issue of national dispute.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Soon after the photograph from Mount Suribachi was published, some people began to dispute it.

VOA: special.2010.05.31