"To me it's too artificial and it's also the same story that you've seen before with indigenous groups and the white colonial forces coming to destroy them or something like that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

"It's really cool to walk into public places, like a mall or something like that, and have people just go nuts,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

"Without giving too much away, I don't think you can go through something like that without it affecting you."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"It's times like that when you have such great pride in Americans, when you see somebody do something like that for a smaller sport, certainly a prominent sport, where they needed that funding.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

"Well,one of the things that's interesting about these flexible sheets is that they can be curved, so you could imagine putting them in unconventional forms, like on the surface of a vehicle or something like that, where you don't have a flat surface."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

"And this fired my imagination. I thought,'My gosh, we could do something like that.'" Sir Clem Renouf, then president of Rotary International, convinced Rotarians across the globe to unite against the disease by raising money to fight the virus and by volunteering their time toward that effort.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, 'oh,we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma,'" Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

And it went something like this. It wasn't him Charlie, it was you.You remember that night at the Garden.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

You know, it's like three dollars for something that's, I don't know, in my mind pretty luxurious."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Not so hot also is a way of saying that you do not really like something.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The saying that looks like something the cat dragged in describes something in bad condition.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Something that is one of a kind and like no other thing is called unique.

VOA: special.2010.04.18