Last year,some 800 people died when a ferry capsized in rough seas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

The Impressionists used bright colors, rough brush strokes and thick paint to show light and movement in its many forms.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The United States Forest Service soon had trees planted in some areas and a rough road system built.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

She found an envelope in the jar with the message: "I hope this money will help you and your family in these rough times."

VOA: special.2010.02.05

And a great many farmers still lived in houses, or cabins, made of rough logs.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

The greenhorn lacked the skills he would need to live in the hard,rough country.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

And the trail took the cowboys over rough country in all kinds of weather.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

The roads were very rough. In many places, they were covered with water.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

He felt a rough spot in the top of his mouth.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

These people were very rough in their ways.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

We were soon in very rough country.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

For decades,diamond merchants in Surat in western Gujarat state have imported rough stones, and exported them to the United States and Europe after they are cut and polished.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Austan Goolsbee spoke on Fox News Sunday: "It is going to be a rough patch not just in the immediate term, but for a little bit of time ".

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

But they were overruled by President Obama. In ordering the memos' release, President Obama assured the CIA that its officers who used rough interrogation tactics will not be prosecuted for their actions.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Today it is a surge. But now,like then,American troops hunt the rough terrain for an elusive enemy who hides among the populace or takes sanctuary across the border in a neighboring country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09