I think trying to understand our world is a really complicated endeavor and it's important to have a sort of solid rational approach like science does."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

"I was trying," he said, "to put the history of mankind in one sentence." Later he said, "I am still trying to do it, but now I want to put it all on the head of a pin."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

"It's telling us the regime might be trying to use any good will over the elections as a smokescreen."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"It's also trying to overcome the fear of cholera, because it's a new disease and it's unknown and it strikes quickly,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

It is part of a larger investigation aimed at trying to identify those individuals he was in contact with.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

And there's a lot more to it than just trying to count the number of Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

If you are a musician trying to make it in Senegal, you may find success but you will find it hard to make a living.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"You really can't do anything when you have a virus that doesn't grow well except trying to wiggle it around to get it grow better."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Jeffery Wassertstrom a Historian professor at the University of California,Irvine, says China is trying to reclaim the powerful status it held hundreds of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

For many people trying to shed a few kilograms, it's hard enough to lose the weight, but many experts say it's even harder to keep the weight off.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Jeff Sessions is a Republican from Alabama: "This legislation may have a great vision, it may have a great idea about trying to make the system work better.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"You had a very good feeling for what it was you were all trying to do together and I think that is a sign of a particularly good leader."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Industrialized and developing nations have for two years been trying to come up with a workable framework for December negotiations in Copenhagen but with little to show for it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"It is a very exciting moment for me because this is a big recognition for the ideas that I have been promoting, trying to let people pay attention to it.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12