Explorer Pen Hadow led a two-and-a-half-month trek earlier this year that revealed Arctic ice is melting faster than previously thought.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Election officials here are cautioning that previously announced dates to post official returns in mid-September may be pushed back.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

U.S.Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry has previously expressed his reservations regarding corruption in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Previously,however, they tended to protest against what they saw as an infringement on their socio-economic rights.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

President Nasheed has previously announced plans to buy a new homeland for his country's 350,000 citizens if the Maldives does eventually disappear below the waves.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

The plan follows months of deadlock over Iran's nuclear program and the recent discovery of a previously unknown nuclear-enrichment plant near the Iranian city of Qom.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packaging and promotion, increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costly chemical fertilizers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

"The difference,the scholar says, is that religious fanaticism previously assisted nationalism;

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Computer programmers already have created thousands of applications for the iPad that will allow customers to perform many other tasks previously done on regular laptops or on mobile phones.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

All are highly-educated management-level professionals who previously earned six-figure salaries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The junta leader, who seized power less than a year ago, previously said he would not run in elections scheduled for January but has since indicated he may change his mind.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Previously,it was included in Folk music.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

But Air India chairman Jadhav has said there were no problems with the airport runway, and the pilot who landed the ill-fated aircraft had done so many times previously, and was highly experienced.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

So I think that is somewhat premature. We have said previously if you go back to what the European Union has said that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but the conditions are not there as of yet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17