States that want to take part in the Race to the Top cannot have rules that bar performance-based pay for teachers.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The real question was this: did Congress have the power to control or bar slavery in the territories.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

However,the law does not bar sex discrimination in admissions at private undergraduate schools, only public ones.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

But some take effect quickly. For example,in six months the new law will bar insurance companies from denying coverage to children with pre-existing health conditions.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Our summer intern,Mike DeFabo, visited a sports bar in Washington for the game.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

"Why aren't more science talks in a bar,right? Like this is the place where you learn and you ask and you understand things most quickly, instead of a lecture where it's really just a one-way thing."

VOA: special.2010.05.14

(Speaking in Polish) The owner,30-year-old Roman Gruchalski, explains that the bar plays on his own nostalgia for the past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

We set the bar to have at least they have about 90 or 91 percent predominant Muslims in the countries .

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Virtually every week since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Friday prayers in Tehran have been punctuated with the ritual cry of "Marg bar Amerika" Death to America.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

People watching at a bar in Spain were happy with the choice.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

He was granted more than 600 patents. His ideas for processes or devices are used in bar-code scanners, automated warehouse manufacturing systems,fax and automated teller machines, the crying baby doll, and Sony Walkman portable cassette player.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"We wanted to raise the bar a bit and right from the way in which we recruited the communications staff, to my own commitment to French, we've tried to build a communications team that is fluently bilingual.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

In Quetta,Supreme Court Bar Association President Ali Ahmad Kurd said he felt confident about the chances of reinstating the deposed chief justice of the supreme court, who has become a unifying symbol for opponents of the ruling Pakistan People's Party and President Asif Zardari.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12