The incumbent has 54 percent of valid votes above the absolute majority needed to avoid a second round of balloting.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

from Europe with a valid entry visa. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's name should have come up on a computer screen.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Plant says this definition, which first appeared in a 1930 ILO Convention Against Forced Labor, is still valid today.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

And he vows to establish a valid legal framework for the continued detention of the most dangerous detainees.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

"We all know that contracts are valid in this country, but they need to be looked at,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Out of the 5.8 million votes deemed valid so far, the incumbent has three million while the top challenger has just more than half that amount.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

She says Honduran concerns about possible illegal actions by their president may be valid, but they do not justify the way Zelaya's removal was carried out.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

Election officials say they have now processed ballots from more than one-third of polling stations nationwide and just more than two million votes have been deemed valid.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday no Iranians have responded to the invitations thus far, and that in any event they are no longer valid.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

U.N.spokesman Gordon Weiss says that cannot be used as a valid excuse.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

That equals 46.3 percent of total valid votes tabulated so far.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

"Therefore you need a new start, where the same ideas that are valid become part of the American foreign policy but somehow delinked (from) that whole invasion and occupation, so the new administration has the opportunity to do that in a way that democracy is incorporated into U.S.Middle East policy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"Definitely being in a different country and learning about American culture, American education system and everything else geting a degree here will definitely be valid back in my country so I am very lucky to be here and my goal right after graduation I want to look for some sponsorship opportunities and also being able to stay in the United States to do some kind of work with some Tennis academy and travel a litle bit and play in some Tennis tournaments."

VOA: standard.2009.12.14