Asked if Kuwait is ready to take such steps, Deputy Prime Minister al-Sabah stressed Kuwaiti support for U.S.-led peace efforts but would not be specific.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

The spokesman also said the general's specific troop request will be sent to Secretary Gates this week, as the review continues.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

I expect a robust agreement at Copenhagen summit meeting that will be effective immediately and include specific recommendations on mitigation,adaptation, finance and technology.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"We have to go to the best centers and try to identify specific practices at these centers that could be exported to lower performing centers."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Some statement," Republican Congressman Bob Inglis implied that the administration's efforts to employ intensified diplomacy with Iran might be affecting funding decisions for specific democracy projects.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The Georgian spokesman says he cannot be 100 percent certain about Russia's involvement,but notes that an investigation of specific involvement of Russian special services is underway.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

(Test) The U.N.Secretary-General says he is "optimistic" a climate-change agreement can be reached in Copenhagen that will include specific recommendations on key elements that will take effect immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

It is not known what specific issues will be covered during the talks Saturday, but the White House said Senator Webb would convey "strong" U.S.views on Burma's political path.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Clinton was not specific about diplomatic action that might be taken in the event of a launch, other than to say it would not go unnoticed and would have consequences.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"Of course,the visit to Libya, I mean everything with Libya is always rather unique and peculiar, but that might be Libya-specific, and I am sure that Gadhafi would have welcomed Bashir.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"We hope to receive entries that describe how specific innovations have improved the lives of women and girls,and proposals for how they can be scaled up and applied more broadly."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

"Additional forces will begin to deploy shortly,". "And by this time next year, new security gains will be illuminated by specific indicators and it will be clear to us that the insurgency has lost the momentum.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

And although U.S.officials say small adjustments may be possible in the specific plan for an air base in northern Okinawa, Secretary Gates said he doubts the U.S.Congress would agree to significant changes in the agreement, particularly if they would cost the United States more money.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27