Prime Minster MALIKI: (Through translator) The time limit for this plan will be this, we'll stop when we've made Baghdad secure.

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Here we were treated to a mirror image as Ferguson's concise answers to routine questions were made to seem like whole chapters from War and Peace by the time Fifa's Japanese translator had worked her magic.

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Mr. YONG: (Through translator) From physical size to reaction time to dexterity, I think table tennis is a more suitable sport for Asians.

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Mourinho's reaction at the final whistle said it all as he sprinted around the Nou Camp pitch with his hands aloft, a pointed salute to the Barca supporters and media critics who had labelled him "The Translator" in mocking tribute to his time at the club in the 1990s.

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At the same time, these translation glasses show how rapidly we are advancing toward an actual universal translator.

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Sheikh AHMED ABU RISHA (Sunni Tribal Leader): (Through translator) And they are assassinated a lot of the sheikhs at that time.

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E-speak is a translator of information available on the Internet that's needed at a particular time.

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She spoke a pre-Inca language, Aymara, and through a translator I learned that she was explaining her success at feeding her kids for the first time in her life.

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It says she was held for 10 days without access to a lawyer or translator after her arrest and the Indonesian authorities failed to inform the British embassy during this time.

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