"What is worrying is the fact that the decision was obviously taken as a result of Russia's insistence of scrapping the plan."

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

As a matter of fact, Tony Hayward didn't take his coat off until probably the sixth or seventh week into the crisis."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

As a matter of fact, I may even be better than you are.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

The fact that the Obama administration is giving a great deal of attention to Afghanistan is seen as a major positive according to Zoran Milovic, the Kabul-based representative of the Asia Foundation.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"We are seeing things,as SADC, from a different point of view, that in fact the lifting of sanctions will help to quicken the process of the implementation of the Global Political Agreement,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"You might take this as a general principle, that if you have revolutionary transformations, it's extremely difficult to go back to legal,legitimized, constitutional transfers of power that revolutionary settlements, in fact,are quite dangerous as a precedent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"Marriage by universal moral codes that have been held for thousands of year by virtually every culture reserves the sanctity of a sexual relationship as between a man and a woman and that's just the fact we are architecturally built that way we're biochemically built that way, we're designed that way for pocreation."

VOA: standard.2010.03.03