But,he says,we cannot accept that an Iraqi reporter be treated like this, especially since we are a fledgling democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

The controversial transfer was endorsed this week by Madagascar's Constitutional Court which has become the source of legitimacy for the fledgling regime.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Although employers continue to cut jobs amid a fledgling economic recovery, the U.S.unemployment rate for January dipped below 10 percent to 9.7 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

It's great!" Comic-con marketing director David Glanzer says the once-fledgling event has grown in recent years, thanks in part to Hollywood's love affair with action heroes.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

A credible election is deemed crucial to the reputation of the mission by 42 nations and their 100,000 troops fighting the Taliban insurgency and attempting to preserve Afghanistan's fledgling democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

With a fledgling recovery gaining strength, it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago, an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21