In nineteen eighty-six, Congress chose the rose as America's national flower.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

But many experts say Mr.Saakashvili's drop in popularity over the years indicates a strong disillusionment with the achievements of the Rose Revolution.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"I think the bloom is off the rose but I don't think they quite knew who else it could be, or how to make it be someone else or facilitate a free and fair election.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

This is much truer,of course, in a place like Georgia, where the first elected president Gamsakhurdia was overthrown by a civil war, then the second Shevardnadze was overthrown from the street in the Rose Revolution and now Saakashvili, after losing his war with Russia, in fact, is now threatened by the street,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

But I think as time went on after the Rose Revolution, I think he wanted to perpetuate this kind of system in which there was really absence of checks and balances, no real opposition included in the political process very much sort of governing by committee of the inner circle, of loyal allies around the president.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

As each wave came, the boat rose and fell, like a horse starting toward a fence too high to jump.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

The waves rose too high. The waves with their white tops pushed at the open boat with angry violence.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

In the early eighteen eighties, the price of cattle rose to fifty dollars each, and many cattlemen became rich.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Because he used head-craft, instead of witchcraft, he rose from the poorest igloo to be the chief in the village.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

Among all workers, the possibility of someone reporting fair or poor health rose forty-four percent after job loss and workplace closure.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

The National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes rose about three percent from March to April.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

One week after Clay first proposed the compromise, he rose in the Senate to speak in its defense.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

We finished our meeting. I promised to return with the agreement the next day, and rose to leave.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

She was the fifth of nine children born to the Irish Catholic family of Joseph and Rose Kennedy.

VOA: special.2009.08.23