For their part, the squatters hope to take advantage of a French law preventing authorities from evicting tenants during the winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

But they did not take part in the recount because the court refused to allow each of them to send a political representative as well as a bailiff to observe the process.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

"He was told of a plan to take the bathyscaphe to the deepest part of the ocean, roughly 11,500 meters That really got my attention because I knew I was going to be a part of it."

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Mr.Obama's June 4 speech in the Egyptian capital will take place as part of a trip that will include visits to Germany and France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War Two.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

"Well,actually I was scheduled to work this morning," . "When I got up at 5:30, I saw on the news that they needed a lot of help, and I called into my job and said I needed to take a short day vacation, because I needed my son to be a part of what was going on."

VOA: standard.2010.01.18