They wanted railroads that reached across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

At that time the United States did not stretch all the way across the continent.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

In eighteen thirty-nine the American Naval officer Charles Wilkes led an expedition to the continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

He and former American President Jimmy Carter worked with the Sasakawa Africa Association to help increase the quality and production of corn on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

He mapped over two thousand kilometers of the continent's coastline.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

There are about sixty research stations on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Last year,about forty-five thousand travelers visited the continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

But many places on the continent ban it.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

Evocative symbols of Europe's troubled past,such as the swastika, have long been illegal in a number of countries across the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Ghana had carried the hopes of the continent when became the only African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

In an earlier address to business leaders in Pretoria, Mrs Clinton says that there is great untapped potential on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

Easterbrook began collecting African-related Obama items on a trip to the continent in 2007, when then Senator Obama was running for president.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

Today Africa owes about $400 million to donors, though relief efforts have alleviated the debt of several of the continent's poorest countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Kale is categorizing the incoming World Cup items that are as diverse as the continent they come from.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

The president said Ghana has become an example for the rest of the continent a country where development is spurred by good governance.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Premier Wen also said Beijing would cancel debts owed it by some of the continent's poorest nations.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

President Zuma's silence certainly contradicts that and seems to be an abdication of the leadership role that South Africa could be providing the continent."

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

The South Africa leader also emphasized that this is an event for the continent of Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

Africa,with already severe weather conditions and a poor population largely dependent on subsistence farming, is considered to be the continent most threatened by climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

August in Australia culminated in a record-breaking heat-wave across much of the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

He called on a new generation of Africans to build democracy, create opportunity,fight corruption, and end the long cycle of strongman rule and conflict on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Despite recent wet weather across much of the continent, climatologists warn that a looming El Nino pattern could bring drier conditions to Australia in the coming months.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24