The military sounded confident that victory in its campaign to wipe out the Tamil Tigers is close at hand.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

But now researchers led by Doctor Jonathan Winickoff at MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston are warning about what they call "third-hand smoke."

VOA: special.2009.01.07

This wall may work as well and last as long but it is not as pleasing to look at as the one built by hand.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

He looked out over the valley, then down at the papers in his hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Of course,with signers,their first language has no written system at all, just hand gestures.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

"If we put a bureaucratic hand on this, we will stifle the capacity for modern technology to give us a better shot at the students learning the material."

VOA: special.2011.06.09

It's obvious. On the other hand, if you only look at the environmental impact, you can hurt people's livelihoods."

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Now,with a map of the whole genome in hand, the researchers looked at how individual genes in the adult finch brain respond to singing.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

So in other words, if you live with a smoker, you really are at very high risk of demonstrating high levels of second-hand smoke exposure."

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

The documentary is the first ever to provide a first-hand look at how the group's medical teams respond to emergencies caused by war, infectious disease or natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The legislation will seek to limit risk-taking at firms and would raise regulatory requirements to ensure that banks have enough money on hand to weather an economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Palin critics also noted that she had scribbled notes on her hand prior to her speech at the Tea Party convention about broad themes like tax cuts and energy.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

He went on to study physics at the University of Madrid and with that degree in hand headed to a theological center in Salamanca,where,in 1960, he was ordained a Dominican priest.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"We believe that, with the experience of Thailand handling this situation in the past two decades, where at times there were several hundred thousand came over the Thai borders this is,on one hand,serious issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09