The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

I'm going to just give you two examples of the way Moses and God act as a check upon each other.

我会给大家举两个例子,就上帝和摩西克制对方脾气的例子。

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But,they feel that the best way to make this happen is to act as if they disapprove of any relationship between their two children.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

In two thousand eight Congress passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

In eighteen sixty-two, Congress had passed the Homestead Act.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

By eighteen eighty-two, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

And no two tornadoes act the same way.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

I believe the choice should be clear." Though foreign affairs committee approval, which occurred by voice vote, is a significant step toward a vote by the full House of Representatives, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act remains subject to consideration by two other House panels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28