When I was nearly twenty years old, they insisted that I learn a profession even though we were a rich family, and I really didn't have to work at all.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

"Even though we have slowed the loss of jobs,and today's report on the continued decline in unemployment claims is a hopeful sign, the economic growth that we have seen has not led to the job growth that we desperately need,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

We must not be enemies. Though emotion may have damaged them, it must not break our ties of love."

VOA: special.2009.07.30

This seemed to be a dissenting opinion,though, at least among the people we spoke to.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

"If it is just the first step, we can give Medvedev the benefit of the doubt, though this step is probably rather a clumsy one.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

"I though it was a good response from the team, we did not just fall back into our shell and just let it all go out the window,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

Even though it would be easy and it is ripe for the picking, we wanted to be more of an homage to that type of storytelling because I think it has a really powerful message.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"Perhaps most important,though, we can now field initial elements of the system to protect our forces in Europe and our allies roughly six to seven years earlier than the previous plan a fact made more relevant by continued delaysin the Czech and Polish ratification processes that have caused repeated slips in the timeline,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

"When you really look deeper at what the AU is doing and what is happening at the regional economic community level, though the progress has not been what we might have expected a number of years ago, it has changed, and it is a work in progress, and next year this time we might be talking about the next summit within a very different context if we are looking at the political leadership of the day,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02