"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

By the nineteen sixties, Les Paul and Mary Ford's series of hits came to an end and they later ended their marriage.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Lee hoped for a final, decisive blow that would bring the war to an end.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

However,one day in nineteen fifty-one, his search came to an end.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Athnaise's last week in the city was coming to an end.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is running for re-election, has lost support for not bringing violence to an end.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

"His extraordinary life on this earth has come to an end," "The extraordinary good that he did lives on."

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

NASA plans to retire the shuttle fleet, bringing US manned space flight to an end, for the forseeable future.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"I think it is too premature and too early for us to say we have come to an end of the pandemic influenza worldwide,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

That is because 'terrorism' is but a tactic -- a means to an end, which in al-Qaida's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

But this was the year many thought that futility would come to an end.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

But he fears that could all be coming to an end as the massive oil slick from the Deep Water Horizon drilling rig creeps toward the coast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

In my view Iran's nuclear program is a means to an end.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Democratic Senator Arlen Specter of Virginia saw his 30-year Senate career come crashing to an end Tuesday night, losing to Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak in a Democratic primary vote.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19