This one of our ways of being a part of that. It's disheartening to see we lost the first round,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

"I am 99 percent sure that if it didn't happen, probably Lech Kaczynski would lose these elections in the first round."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

"We have got to make sure that this second round is not marred by fraud and corruption like the first round,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But obviously if he did not get the 50 percent in the first round then there has to be a second round."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

In Ukraine,presidential contenders Tymoshenko and Yanukovych have been seeking the support of candidates they defeated in the first round, especially Serhiy Tihipko.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

The lead up to Afghanistan's second round of voting is beginning much like the first round under the Taliban's threats of violence.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

The first round of voting on August 20 was marred by widespread fraud, which mostly benefited Mr.Karzai.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

A just-released International Crisis Group report says the fraudulent first round and continuing political uncertainty have been a boon for the Taliban insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Neither candidate was able to win an outright majority in the first round of voting June 20th.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

If the crash had not happened,he says, Komorowski would almost certainly have won in the first round.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

Chicago native Stephanie Pines says she was shocked when Chicago was eliminated in the first round.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

Before the first round of voting, opinion polls had placed Komorowksi firmly in the lead.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

About 3,000 foreign election observers declared that, despite a few irregularities, the first round of Ukraine's presidential election on January 17 met international standards for honesty.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

He said he has a commitment from the Afghan election commission that officials involved in fraud during the first round will not be hired for the runoff.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

One of the opposition candidates in the first round of voting was killed by military police who said he was resisting arrest on suspicion of plotting a coup.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

Afghanistan's first round of voting in August was marred by widespread fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Reports from the first round of voting detailed a number of violent attacks by the Taliban, including rocket fire and the amputations of ink-stained fingers on voters' hands.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

In the first round of the 2008 Major League Soccer draft, Espinoza was selected by the Kansas City Wizards, and has become a regular performer for the MLS team.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Croatia's electoral commission says Social Democrat candidate Ivo Josipovic won the most votes in the first round of Croatia's presidential poll with more than 32 percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

This year's vote lacked the suspense of some previous elections, because all five candidates were unopposed and succeeded in getting the two-thirds majority required in the first round of secret ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

In the first round, more than a million ballots, most of them for Mr.Karzai, were declared fraudulent by the U.N.-run Election Complaints Commission, depriving Mr.Karzai of what he claimed was an outright electoral victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

EU Finance Commissioner Olli Rehn made the call after a first round of talks with Greek officials amid growing market expectations of a trade-off between new deficit cutting steps and practical EU support for Greek borrowing.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

The Spanish picked up the pressure in the second half, but were unable to find their way through the U.S.defense, which was bolstered by the return of captain Carlos Bocanegra, who was missing from first round matches with a hamstring injury.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

He said the United Nations would provide all the necessary administrative, technical and logistical support to the Afghans, as it did for the first round, and would work with the Electoral Complaints Commission and the Independent Election Commission to make the second round transparent and credible.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

George Washington, the nation's first president, had a round barn in the seventeen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

U.S.Special Envoy on Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke believes the second round of voting will be cleaner than the first.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28