The batter also is out if he hits the ball in the air and an opposing player catches it.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

She says that she is always trying to find a balance between these opposing forces to find a place where opposites meet.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

His two opposing ideas involved seeking happiness from material things, and knowing that material things only brought unhappiness.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

The robots had to pick up large balls and throw them into the trailers of opposing robots.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Even opposing scientists say human-influenced global warming has become widely accepted by the scientific community.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

The opposing groups are a gang of young people and a group of new immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Opposing campaigns are accusing each other cheating. Observers from the International Republican Institute, financed by the American government, say the voting process was well organized.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

But labor unions and progressive groups tried to defeat her for opposing a "public option."

VOA: special.2010.06.12

This was almost halfway between the capitals of the opposing sides: Washington and Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Here Frank plays with contrasts, or opposing elements, as he does in many photographs.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The Confederate force opposing Hooker's was under the command of General Robert E.Lee.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

During a trial, lawyers for the opposing sides question the witnesses who testify.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Fugue is a series of opposing melodies used to create a complex effect.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Farmers and westerners attacked him for opposing the use of silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

But I ask the honorable senators whether their duty will be done by simply limiting themselves to opposing any one or all of the resolutions I have offered."

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He wanted men representing all opposing groups in the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Each chamber offered the coral larvae two opposing conditions.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

And a thousand other opposing ideas."

VOA: special.2010.06.10

"To be,or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?"

VOA: special.2010.01.06