Soon after his building was finished, builders in Chicago and New York City began copying and improving on the idea of building up.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

"Today,in the face of violence from those who would only destroy, Iraqis took a step forward in the hard work of building up their country.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

Others left when their governments began building up strong armies.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The president said he has stopped budget reductions in the Navy, and is building up the Marine Corps.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

"The guys are building up positions now just in case the insurgents do decide to attack."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"You see children getting many episodes of malaria and gradually building up their immune response.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

He said he spoke earlier in the day to European defense ministers who are meeting in Sweden and urged them to play a larger part in training and building up the police and army.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The prime minister said crucial to that strategy is building up Afghan local and national government institutions and practices to make sure Afghan President Hamid Karzai is able to tackle some major issues.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

"It has collapsed because of the conscious work of new generation of opposition inside which worked for two decades on building up an alternative system of information, knowing that's the most important,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

But the political leadership does not want that. "So a part of the strategy is building up those elements in Pakistan that understand that having a stable and peaceful relationship with Afghanistan is actually in Pakistan's national security interest,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

We met up with them at the United States Botanic Garden on the grounds of the Capitol building.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

Night fell. Then,a militia officer, Captain Sinn, walked up to the small building held by Brown.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The wall I was building in the doorway was now almost up to my shoulders.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

He set up the Patowmack Company and started building the canal in seventeen eighty-five.

VOA: special.2011.04.29