Earlier this year, Tomohiko Hagino in Japan wrote to ask for information about a painful disease -- fibromyalgia.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

In July,the Defense Department e-mailed a "Don't Ask,Don't Tell" opinion survey to four hundred thousand service members.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

"My friends,I ask you to join in this historic journey to have the courage to choose change.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Republicans in the Senate say they will ask about her lack of judicial experience during confirmation hearings.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

In forming his cabinet, Buchanan did not ask for advice from Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

And now,before my courage fails, I would ask you, to be mine in marriage.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Next we ask Swetha who lives in Washington and is originally from India.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

The speaker says: Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.

VOA: special.2011.04.17

Ask anyone in a business.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

And you can ask them any sort of question you want, and they'll look it up in English or in Hindi, or whatever the main language is, and translate the answer right back for you."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"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

In a country the size of western Europe, we can't be everywhere at the same time, and the hotline allows them to call in no matter where they are and to ask usthe information that we can provide -- even if we're not necessarily able to provide the services directly."

VOA: special.2010.05.03

And in 1961, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, John Kennedy urged people to take an active part in the future: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Mekonnen said he was not sure whether the government would ask for extradition of those convicted in absentia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23