No one knew if they could get the spacecraft back to Earth, or if they could survive long enough to return.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Santa Ana said he would agree to the sale, if the United States would help him return to power.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Davis was sure that no good would result from it, not even from stronger laws on the return of escaped slaves.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The experts say individual progress and not a set time period should always guide a decision to return to play.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

She says people might have difficulty completing an activity if they cannot expect some kind of reward in return.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

It also wants to make the government a majority shareholder in return for part of the emergency loans it has received.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

The situation raised fears that the peninsula could be headed toward a return of the warfare of the early nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

President Obama will return to Illinois to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's two hundredth birthday at a big dinner in Springfield this Thursday.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Back then,there was much hope that humans would return soon and make a home on Earth's only natural satellite.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

In return,he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis,Missouri, to San Francisco,California, in twenty-five days or less.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Wilma Mankiller was known for her effort to return the balance of power of the sexes to the Cherokee Nation.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

NASA was worried that the extra water could destroy the power supply needed for the spacecraft's return to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

He told Grant that his men would promise to stay out of the war if permitted to return to their homes.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The Forest Service is protecting the area from too much human activity so it will return to its natural wild condition.

VOA: special.2009.07.20