American housing sales,though, have improved in recent months, helped by lower prices and a tax credit for first-time buyers.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

We must not be enemies. Though emotion may have damaged them, it must not break our ties of love."

VOA: special.2009.07.30

And even though a great civil war was being fought, citizens of the North prepared to choose a leader.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

He succeeded in beginning that process, though black Americans did not gain full civil rights until the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Even though West Virginia had remained in the Union, about half of the people in the state supported the South.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

That investigative work continues to be what she is known for, even though some of her later writings defended American business.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Though she never ran for office, she spent her life energetically working to improve the lives of people with developmental problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

There are times,however, when a play became highly successful, even though most of the critics panned it without mercy.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

It didn't turn out well, but you know, I mean it was a nice memory though, a good experience making chocolate."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Many Republicans supported the proposal, even though the Republican Party opposed the spread of slavery into the western territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Mister Chavez asked that the strikers remain non-violent even though the farm owners and their supporters sometimes used violence.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

That measure freed the slaves in the rebel states of the South, though Lincoln's words fell on deaf ears.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

At the same time,though, the two scientists found that the protein can also support the growth of cancer in some cells.

VOA: special.2010.05.18