This building measures eight hundred twenty-eight meters in height.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

These spires were considered an architectural part of the building, so their length was included in the building's height measurement.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

In recent days, Americans have lost two civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Many people felt this was unfair, because the Sears Tower's tall antenna was not included in the official height measurement.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat decided in nineteen ninety-six to include the height of the spires of the Petronas Towers.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Dorothy Height went on to earn bachelor and master's degrees in four years at New York University.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

This led to its surpassing the height of the Sears Tower in Chicago by about ten meters.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Calculating building height was not a complex measurement in the late nineteenth century with early skyscrapers like the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

"And the water here, came in like that,bang." When Katrina hit, water levels exceeded the height and strength of many of these walls.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Body mass index,or BMI, is a measure of a person's weight in relation to height.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Builders in Dubai and China have already started plans for surpassing the Burj Khalifa's height.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Dorothy Height grew up in Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The rebels began their guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983, and at the height of their power they controlled vast swathes of territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

At Illusions CD shop in downtown Islamabad, employee Irfan says, even today, years after the height of Jackson's career, people still come to buy his music.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

The art form reached its height during the Renaissance, when micro-mosaics were created for St.Peter's Basilica in Vatican City because traditional altar paintings were decaying from humidity and other environmental factors.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. While violence in Iraq has dropped dramatically since the height of sectarian fighting, the attacks were the second major security breach in Baghdad a city filled with checkpoints in two months.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

Addressing students from several Washington area schools as well as dignitaries such as African-American activist and social educator Dorothy Height, the Obamas referred to the progress women in America have made over the decades in securing their rights.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08