Many senators opposed it. They said taking control of the Dominican Republic would cost too much money.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The official returned with a treaty giving the Dominican Republic to the United States for one-and-one-half-million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Baez was so dishonest that the people of the Dominican Republic were ready to overthrow him.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Less than two years later, a similar financial problem arose in the Dominican Republic.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

Forty-five percent of the money would be paid to the Dominican government.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

She had seen Dominican sisters serving at the University of Sydney.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

The countries were China,India, Cuba,the Dominican Republic, Venezuela,Mexico and Peru.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

He tried to buy the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Grant immediately sent American warships to the Dominican Republic.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

In 1946,the Dominican Republic, just across the border from Haiti, experienced a magnitude eight earthquake, which triggered a tsunami.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

Fraser says officials have opened three more airports, one in the Haitian city of Jacmel and two in the neighboring Dominican Republic.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

The quake was also felt in Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

The quake was also felt in Dominican Republic which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

He went on to study physics at the University of Madrid and with that degree in hand headed to a theological center in Salamanca,where,in 1960, he was ordained a Dominican priest.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

In addition to tea and coffee producers in Africa and India, the foundation is trying to get good prices for all sorts of products - including these bananas from the Dominican Republic.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

Since the United States took the lead in handling logistics for the international aid effort, some medical groups as well as French and Brazilian officials have complained that U.S.military planes were given priority to land, forcing other flights to the neighboring Dominican Republic.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26