In two thousand six, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advised President George W.Bush to base a missile defense system in Europe.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Also prune branches growing toward the ground, high branches growing straight up and shoots growing from the base of the tree.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

He says big coffee sellers like Starbucks help his business by building a base of customers who want something better.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

Place the hands at the base of the breastbone -- just above the place where the lowest ribs join.

VOA: special.2010.08.17

In another example, pilot Edith Foltz Stearns was flying a plane to a military base in Scotland during World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

This spring, Everglades National Park launched a visitation program to what was once a highly restricted military base.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

On June fourth, Mallory and team member Andrew Irvine left their base camp for the team's final attempt to reach the summit.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Douglas was born on an Army base near the southern city of Little Rock, Arkansas in January,eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

A soldier at the Army base in San Francisco gave him gold colored buttons and gold cloth.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

The base played a part in the nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

When that war ended, he was sent to an army base far from his wife and children.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

The government built the Florida base shortly after the discovery of Soviet missiles about three hundred kilometers away, on the island of Cuba.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The Bush administration proposed a radar base in the Czech Republic and ten interceptor missiles in Poland.

VOA: special.2009.09.19