He noted,however,that the U.S. considers Iran to be an important player related to Afghanistan, and sees the issue as a very productive area for engagement in the future Anticipating President Barack Obama's Strategic Review on Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mohammad Mehdi Akhonzadeh said Iran expects measurable change, not rhetoric from the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

This coda suggests something like a victory over all of those worries of unpreparedness as the worried rhetoric of "not yet there" gives way to a much more confident language of present completion, the "now."

这个终结暗示着,对所有的尚未准备好的忧虑的完全克服,一种对现在已经完成的事业的,自信和满足“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So before, because of all these anti-business rhetoric, once you start intervene, s not just the question of the merit of the particular intervention, s the fact that nobody knows ll be intervening again.

所以之前，因为反商业言论，一旦你开始干预，问题就不仅仅在于，it’,某一桩干预事件的好处，而是没人能预料，it’,政府何时又会出手，when，you’

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Change in rhetoric alone is not enough,he says and even then we haven't seen much change in vocabulary.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

But is has another sense which is not a rhetorical sense, because metaphor is sort of the heart of rhetoric, the rhetorical sense A is B--when, by the way, A we know perfectly well that A is not B. How can A be B? A is only A.

但是is有另外一个意思，修辞之外的一种意思，因为暗喻差不多可以说是修辞的中心，修辞中所说的A是B，顺便说一下，我们十分清楚地知道A不是B，A怎么能是B呢，A就是。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters NATO members had shown a clear determination to support President Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan not just through rhetoric, but by dispatching more troops.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

For many,papal rhetoric will not be enough.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01