When you are out in nature it is important to speak softly so as not to frighten the animals away.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

One of the big issues to discuss is how and when to reduce deficits and economic growth measures as conditions improve.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

The people seem so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking hands with a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

When I tell you," said Joseph Taylor, "that he is not as fit to be president as I am, you will see how foolish this idea is."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Bleach is often used as a whitening agent when washing clothes.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

"When my bull wins, it is as if our Korean team has just won a medal in a world competition."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

The World Health Organization has warned people with breathing problems to remain indoors as much as possible when the ash is falling.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

Stupid is as stupid does, sir. That's what's leftafter me saying, "When I was in China onthe all-America Ping-Pong team, "I just lovedplaying Ping-Pong with my Flex-O-LitePing-Pong paddle,"

VOA: standard.other

"That character piece is the foundation. As we like to say, when you are put in very challenging environments, like the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, or recently in western Iraq.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

But President Obama said fighting terrorism is as important now as when the Afghan war began in the days after the September, "Al-Qaida and its affiliates are small men on the wrong side of history."

VOA: standard.2010.05.22

President Zardari has been harshly criticized by some within the Pakistani community in Britain, as well as from back home, for taking this trip - especially at a time when Pakistan is experiencing the worst flooding in decades.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

that you are not as good. So the message of the Buffalo Soldiers is that in that time when racism was at its most virulent, that there were people, there were men who said, 'No,you're wrong, I am just as good as you are.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"It never will be." Hen-Tov says Iranian leaders are perplexed - even envious - that a country that was half as rich as Iran was years 30 ago, when the Islamic Revolution took place, is today twice as wealthy as Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

and went on to sell more than 100,000 copies of the song at a time when there were only about That song is regarded as the first-ever country music hit, and Loudon Wainwright performs it under the title "The Deal" on his Grammy-nominated CD.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24