Those challenges included an economic downturn, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a promise to reform the health care system.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

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

"Standing on the steps of the Capitol will be a man whose story reflects the enduring promise of our land.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

He said new Security Council sanctions approved in June make clear that international law is not an empty promise.

VOA: special.2010.09.25

That is a promise." The new governor of Virginia gave the Republican response to the State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

The promise came Friday on the third and final day of the Group of Eight summit meeting in L'Aquila,Italy.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery or leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

And when the system fails, it is my responsibility." President Obama campaigned on a promise of "change we can believe in."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

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

The F.A.O.says that by signing the treaty, governments promise to take steps to guard their ports against ships involved in such fishing.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

They promise to take action, if needed, "to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole."

VOA: special.2010.02.12

Yet before this week, there were signs of promise of better times ahead for its nine million people.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

President Obama made a campaign promise to begin efforts for immigration reform in his first year in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.18