Pirate ships often flew the flag of a friendly country as they sailed toward the ship they planned to rob.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

It can also rob communities of an important food supply and endanger future populations of some kinds of fish.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Those were the words of Rob Nabors, deputy director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Rob Stewart explains that people fear sharks because of media stories and movies about shark attacks.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Unlike parasites,however, they do not rob the trees of nutrition.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Larry Dever is the sheriff of Cochise County,Arizona, and is leading the investigation into the killing of rancher Rob Krentz.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

It says Congolese government soldiers and rebel groups alike extort money from the villagers, rob them of their belongings and of their seeds and cattle.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

But technology expert Rob Atkinson says smartphones will most likely not be widely used in many developing nations because of their cost, and the cost of connected on-line data plans.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

"We don't want to rob people of a constitutional right but - I kind of don't like saying this, but I'm going to do it, and that is - to err on the side of protection is the chance sometimes we have to take."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03