She believed that training women to serve as support pilots at home could free up men to fly combat operations overseas.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

Jackson was grateful for Van Buren's help, and asked him to come to Washington to serve as secretary of state.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

She is the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States and earlier, as head of Harvard Law School.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

He told the Italian daily La Repubblica that he was "ready to serve as a mediator with Iran,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Tihipko says he is willing to serve as prime minister regardless of who wins.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Three days later, Feiler awoke before dawn with a big idea: he would assemble a group of trusted men to serve as surrogate fathers after his death.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

The Navy says about twenty women will be chosen as the first group to serve on submarines.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

He told his son-in-law in December: "I will not say I would not serve if the good people were to be so unwise as to elect me."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

President Obama says Americans have a responsibility to serve their fighting men and women as well as they serve their country.

VOA: standard.2009.05.23

Williamson developed a theory where business firms can serve as structures to resolve conflicts.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Ending a 15-year ban, a new state law allows concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns into restaurants that serve alcohol, as long as they do not drink.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Whether it is intended or not, the missile launches serve as an implicit reminder to South Korea of the North's ability to inflict massive damage on very short notice.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

"This will serve as a catalyst to help Nigeria to be ready, to improve itself, to look at the organization, to look at the quality of the facilities,and therefore I hope this will serve as a kind of stepping stone for Nigeria to be ready,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

"It should really serve,I think, as a stimulus to us to find ways to recapture the partnership so we can join forces and fight together against the threats and challenges of the 21st century that are no less dangerous than Hitler was in his time."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07