The vote was delayed in part because of the death of longtime Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

UNICEF says the death rate for children under the age of five has fallen twenty-eight percent since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

It really began with the death of the Bank of the United States more than a year before.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Colin Firth plays a college professor who is mourning the death of his partner in "A Single Man."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Emperor Norton said this was necessary because Governor Wise had ordered the death by hanging of John Brown.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

The researchers said tPA improved the chances of a successful result by thirty-one percent and produced no change in the death rate.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Medical historians say the death of Clara Maass also created a public protest over the use of humans in yellow fever research.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

Some members of the local community had strong feelings about the death and worked to make sure the skeleton stayed on the island.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

Steve Graham says he has been hearing about the death of handwriting for the past fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

For example,a poem called "The Death of the Hired Man" begins: Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table, Waiting for Warren.

VOA: special.2011.04.17

People with sickle cell disease can suffer severe pain, bacterial infections and the death of tissue.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

In another development, Friday brought news of the death of Sergei Tretyakov, once Russia's top spy.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

But it,too,had suffered. Much of the death and destruction was the result of new military technology.

VOA: special.2009.12.03