After visiting Silicon Valley, President Medvedev comes to Washington for a brief summit with President Barack Obama.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

we need more problem solving." In his brief remarks, Mr.Obama referred to his proposed $3.5 trillion budget for 2010 as a blueprint for the future.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

It was a big victory for the president. In brief remarks at the White House about an hour after the Senate vote, he spoke of the impact reform will have on the American people.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The crowd outside the courthouse watched anxiously as one by one, each with a canvas-covered bed, backed up to a courtroom door and, out of the view of onlookers, deposited handcuffed defendants for a brief appearance before a judge.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

"In recent years, the development of rapid, diagnostic tests for malaria, also known as RDTs, which can be performed by healthcare workers after a brief training has made the extension of diagnostic testing to rural health facilities possible."

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

ĸVOAٷUNSVվ޹ After a brief welcome ceremony outside the Pentagon, Secretary Gates and General Xu met for more than an hour, during which,according to Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell, the secretary's main message was a call for an end to interruptions in the U.S.-China military relationship.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27