They warned others. People moved away from the water, saving themselves from almost sure drowning.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Yet now,she says, people once again are faced with extensive crop losses and the loss of cattle from drowning.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

But his speech was interrupted a number of times by anti-abortion hecklers, with most graduating students drowning out the hecklers in support of Mr.Obama.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

The memos were graphic and troubling. The four documents - issued under the Bush administration - revealed details of interrogation techniques like simulated drowning that have been condemned around the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

The Bush administration strenuously defended so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" like sleep deprivation to obtain information from detainees, and admitted to harsher treatment, like the simulated drowning technique called water boarding, that was used in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

The interrogators were told they could put them in painful standing positions, deprive them of solid food, keep them awake for extended periods of time, lock them in cold rooms, and submit them to the technique of simulated drowning known as waterboarding.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17