Doctors used a catheter and placed two mesh tubes, called stents, into a blocked artery to help keep it open.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Good relations between Hawaii and the United States were necessary to keep the port open to American ships.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

She soon found it was impossible to keep the office open without more financial support.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

The National Park Service works hard to keep most of the roads open.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

He believed this would keep her mind open to new discoveries.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

The hope is to keep schools open.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

He called for people on both sides of the debate to keep an open mind and to stop demonizing each other.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

Thank you for Freedom House." Lisa Nesser has spent most of her savings to keep the school open.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

House Speaker Pelosi agreed, saying Congress and the Obama administration must keep the door open to additional steps, even as the current stimulus plan begins to work.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

Lithuania - one of the most nuclear-energy dependent nations along with France asked the EU to allow it to keep the plant open for another two to three years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

But it's a struggle to keep the center open.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

But I was always a great believer, and I learned this experientially, of trying to keep your mind open and receptive and not be judgmental too quickly because that shuts down creativity."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

(It's more that problems make us think.) (SAYING) Koesmayadi says he is lucky to have such a close family at Rumah Cemara, and he will keep its doors open to those in need.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The multi-lateral route is the way to go." Unlike Spain and several other concerned countries, the United States has not recalled its ambassador from Tegucigalpa, stressing the need to keep channels of communication open with the Honduran people.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01