Republicans in Congress moved to extend the life of the agency and increase its powers.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

We want a life in which we're accomplishing things, there's agency, and the life of knowing things.

我们想要充满成就的生活，生活要有中介，我们想要能获得知识的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Right. - And I think that if he was making a decision to give his life and he took on the agency to sacrifice himself which some people might see as admirable and other people might disagree with that decision.

对，-我认为如果是他自己决定献出生命,如果是他自己提出要牺牲自己,也许有人会赞颂这种行为,而其他人也许会反对这个决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Mister Rowan said being chosen to head the United States Information Agency and the Voice of America was one of the great honors of his life.

VOA: special.2009.11.01