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

"It's" with an apostrophe is short for "it is," as in "It's raining."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

So,that I think it is extremely important that we have a global strategy, as much as possible, to deal with it,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

State-owned media quote the president as saying he is dissatisfied with this month's global-warming summit in Copenhagen, calling it "a lot of hot air."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"It is wide open." His group has been criticized as racist,but Spencer says this has nothing to do with race, only with border security.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

McClendon adds that it is an opportunity to harvest sustainable timber and gain access to new markets as traders comply with the new requirements.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

He says it is important for the United States to try to settle its differences with Iran, as President Obama has offered to do.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

Even as the Iranian government is trying to deflect international pressure, it is still dealing with the fall-out of its disputed presidential election in June.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

The Obama administration says it is not closing the door to eventual dialogue with Iran on such issues as its support of terrorism and nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

North Korea has declared those talks "dead" several times this year,and says it is willing to deal only with the United States as a fellow nuclear weapons nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

"So,I want the people of this region to know that my administration is going to do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to deal with this disaster."

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

"Prime Minister Putin still has a lot of sway in Russia and I think it is important that even as we move forward with President Medvedev, that Putin understands that the old Cold War approaches to U.S.-Russian relations are outdated,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been and this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

"Manifest destiny,and so forth. And I think most of the world probably feels it is in the same situation as Astrix and his village Gaullois in that we can identify with that sense of wanting to hold out and resist against the encroaching powers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22