The pledges announced by NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rassmussen fall short of the 10,000 additional troops that Pentagon officials hoped for.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

If stock price option -if stock options tend to be issued as announced by the company later, just before stock prices go up, there's no way that that can be right because nobody can know exactly when the stock price is going to go up.

如果股票期权价格...,如果就像公司事后宣称的一样,公司恰好是在股价上涨之前,发行的股票期权,这是不可能做到的,因为没有人可以确切知道,股票价格何时会上涨

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the United States announced a target to reduce its emissions by 17% below 2005 levels in 2020.

美国宣布了到2020年实现在2005年的水平基础上减排17%的目标。

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"In the moratorium just announced by the government of Israel, there will be no new housing construction starts during the 10-month period.,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

But all of this is overthrown, "changed utterly," by the radical politics that altered Ireland during Yeats's lifetime, that announced the coming of modernity and that these two women themselves participated in centrally.

但这一切被推翻了，完全改变“,被叶芝时期的爱尔兰,的那场激进政治革命改变了，他宣告了现代的到来,这两个女人亲身参与其中。

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The announcement followed a closed-door briefing for NATO foreign ministers by Secretary Clinton on the new Afghan strategy announced by President Barack Obama earlier this week.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Local and international journalists are prohibited from speculating about results or voting trends and may report only returns announced by the Interior Ministry on state-run media.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

Several automakers introduced new models. And a pay hike announced by the government for its employees with retrospective effect put money in the hands of many people.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

The agreements announced by Clinton and Indian Foreign Minister S.M.Krishna aim to accelerate a growing partnership ignited by the two countries' landmark nuclear cooperation accord reached in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, John Boehner of Ohio, said the initiatives announced by the White House do not go far enough and what is really needed is a set of new economic policies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

The British newspaper the Guardian reported Monday that altering the role of Mr.Karzai, who is accused by some western officials of tolerating corruption and mismanagement, is one possible element of a revised Afghan policy to be announced by the Obama administration.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The Department of Labor announced the grant in September, along with seven million dollars promised by the international cocoa industry.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

They announced their new album only a week before it went on sale to avoid the usual publicity created by critics.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

The president then announced that the post office would,once again,be protected by the civil service laws.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The president announced the plan Wednesday in Arizona, a state with many houses repossessed by lenders.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

The new lending program will build on one announced last November by the Federal Reserve.

VOA: special.2009.02.13

They launched their plannoes on a quiet Sunday morning and attacked the huge American naval and air base at Pearl Harbor "We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin: The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor,Hawaii by air, President Roosevelt has just announced."

VOA: special.2011.06.02

The recount,ordered by the Election Complaints Commission, began this week and comes before the full,election results have been announced.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

On Friday,Mr.Ban's spokeswoman, Michele Montas, announced that the three-person panel would be led by Chile's U.N.Ambassador, Heraldo Munoz.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

President Obama surprised the world last Thursday when he announced plans to cancel a missile defense system in Europe proposed by the Bush administration.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

And DIRECTV,which delivers television programs by satellite, announced it will have 3D channels starting in June.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

The crackdown was announced at a news conference in Washington by U.S.Attorney General Eric Holder.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Mr.Zelaya announced his return to Tegucigalpa on Monday, three months after he was seized by security forces and taken out of the country by airplane.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

By the time Bildt and Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout finished meeting with the Burmese, North Korea announced it had tested a second nuclear bomb.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

On Thursday, the International Criminal Court announced it was opening a preliminary investigation into the violence - a move hailed by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The draft agreement was announced to reporters by the International Atomic Energy Agency's chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who has given all parties involved until Friday to approve it.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

South African President Jacob Zuma announced what he called a new era in the fight against HIV/AIDS in his country, which is seen by many as the epicenter of the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

A key Senate Democrat involved in bipartisan negotiations on health care announced plans on Wednesday to move ahead with a "markup" the process of finalizing a bill for full consideration by lawmakers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Lavrov briefed Clinton on his visit to North Korea late last month, which was the first by a major-power diplomat since Pyongyang announced it was quitting Chinese-brokered negotiations on its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

It was kicked off last June by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who announced in a major speech that the face veil, which he called a burqa, was against French values and not welcome in France.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30