After the end of the Bank of the United States, there was little control of any kind over the state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

In the early years of the United States, it was the western part of the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

In the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Since the closing of the Bank of the United States, the government had kept its money in a number of state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He was thrown from a taxi. After recovering, he moved to the state of Kansas, and met United States Senator Sam Brownback.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

In 1864, a United States senator called for legislation to give the Yosemite Valley to the state of California as a public park.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Glenn became famous. He later was elected to the United States Senate from the state of Ohio.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

He served in the United States Senate from the state of Massachusetts for almost forty-seven years.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Secretary of State Blaine wanted to increase trade between the United States and other countries.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Mister Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in front of the Old State Capitol Building in Springfield,Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

It said all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States and of the state in which they lived.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The Bank of the United States also helped to control the smaller state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Former United States Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia was the Confederate secretary of state.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The report is called "The State of the Birds United States Two Thousand Nine."

VOA: special.2009.05.12

On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States will hold talks with the UAE and other countries about possible bans on BlackBerry services.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

The resolution said simply that the people of South Carolina were ending the agreement of seventeen eighty-eight in which the state had approved the Constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

And he said it was right for the United States to pay the debts of Texas, because that state no longer could collect taxes on trade as an independent country.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

The ceremony was held under the pine trees with Stumpy saying the simple works: "I proclaim you Thomas Luck, according to the laws of the United States and the state of California, so help me God."

VOA: special.2009.06.06

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Secretary of State Clinton said the United States agreed with Russia it was important to pursue diplomacy toward Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

State Department Spokesman P.J.Crowley said the statements show the United States condemns all forms of terrorist and sectarian-driven violence wherever it occurs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

After the group was pardoned, Berhanu went to the United States, where he teaches economics at a university in the state of Pennsylvania.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25