"When we moved to the city, I was glad to find on this block that there was a little garden where we could become involved, where my son could experience digging and growing things.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

Men,women and children are no longer shackled, put on the auction block and sold like prize cattle to the highest bidder.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

On this day, a line of 100 people waiting to turn in their cans snakes down the block.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"They are on the run and trying to block the exodus of civilians from the area."

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

On the one hand, there is Iran and its allies in the so-called "resistance" block, including Syria, the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But fisheries experts say plans by Cambodia,Laos and Thailand to build hydropower dams on the Mekong would block fish migration, threatening already endangered species.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

But Israel hopes that the United States, which holds a veto in the Security Council, will block any attempt to put Israeli officials on trial for war crimes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

President Obama finds himself relying more than ever on Republican support to prosecute the war in Afghanistan, even as Republicans seek to block his agenda on most other issues.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Turkey,which hoped to join the European Union, threatened in January to block Nabucco, citing a lack of progress in its talks on EU accession, but on Thursday it voiced full support to the project.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

(SAYING) On the southern coast - known as the Costa del Sol - block after block of apartments lie empty or half finished, many of them designed for foreign buyers who have long since abandoned the idea of investing in Spain.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24