The case is seen as a pretext for extending her detention and preventing her from participating in next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

are also regimes that are seen increasingly by their own populace as either illegitimate or repressive or disconnected from the societies they claim to represent."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

India's move to buy gold from the IMF is also seen as part of an effort to assert its greater role in world economic affairs.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

A rock-throwing crowd attacked parliament in what observers described as the worst street violence the Baltic nation had seen since it regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17