These flutes were cut from the naturally curved area of ivory from an animal -- the mammoth.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Branches or buds are cut from one plant and placed on a related kind of plant.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

India,for example, has promised to cut emissions by at least twenty percent from two thousand five levels by two thousand twenty.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

From a distance, they shot at each other. Close up, they cut each other with knives.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

We will cut that state off from the Confederacy, and give it to the alligators!"

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Then the United States would be cut off from trading directly with China.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Others built houses from blocks of earth cut out of the grassland.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

On the way home from school she takes a short cut through a barley field where she is startled by a neighbor, Mr.Harvey.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

"My understanding is that, from 2005 to 2020, China can cut four giga-tons to four-point-five giga-tons of CO2 emissions - that is huge,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

A woman named Carolyn phoned from the state of Illinois and said many seniors are worried that their Medicare benefits will be cut as part of health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Investors also fear the new administration will loosen fiscal policies, although EU nations from Greece to Britain are being forced to cut spending to shore-up Europe's weakening euro currency.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Aside from the cut in aid, the State Department on Thursday also announced it would revoke the U.S.visas of an unspecified number of Honduran officials, who are backing Zelaya's replacement, Roberto Micheletti.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

"We cannot build a stable global economy when hundreds of millions of workers and families find themselves on the wrong side of globalization, cut off from markets and out of reach of modern technologies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06