There should be some sense by the end of the year,he says, whether or not serious progress is being made.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

At the end of March, Lincoln held another cabinet meeting and again asked what should be done about Fort Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

And I made it clear that by August thirty-first, two thousand ten, America's combat mission in Iraq would end.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wrote in the Washington Post that the deep financial crisis is close to the end.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

By the end of this month,he said, the United States will have brought home more than ninety thousand troops.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

But what I do remember was, at the end of that long, continuous coverage it must have been about two a.m.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

At the end of a week, only two of the plotters were still free: David Herold and John Wilkes Booth.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

He replaced General Ambrose Burnside, when Burnside suffered a terrible defeat at Fredericksburg,Virginia, at the end of eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Its long history almost came to an end two years ago when a major fire burned its South Hall building.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

The fighting died down at the end of the day, and Jackson's men moved back to their positions on higher ground.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

At the end of March, President Obama called for the United States to expand its offshore oil and gas exploration.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

More than one thousand people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia at the end of September.

VOA: special.2010.01.12