Mr.Powell says financial incentives like these can get employees to do something once or twice.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

This expression means to get to the bottom or most important part of something.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

His purpose is to get something from you.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

So I think if they get something done it will be more appealing to the moderate Democrats than to the liberals."

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"It was always thought that you needed a little bit of something to get the system going.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

"When kids get to hear something about motivation from someone like that, it's fantastic."

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

Something Sajjan Gohel says passengers will just have to get used to.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

"The critical part at the end of whatever the level of study you are going to do is to get yourself involved in something that puts you into a laboratory."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

"But I hope people will equally understand that it will be better to get the decision right rather than rushing into something that will not stand the test of time."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

"In Latin America where I am from, football is something that is watched on weekends and families get together to do so and kids see it from an early age."

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

President Obama has made health care reform his top domestic priority, and Rothenberg says it has now become essential for Democrats to get something through Congress before next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"If we are able to work something out with the borrower, were they get to keep their house, and my client gets to have payments according to the mortgage, that's a win for everybody."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

"It is going to require more work, but I think that we can get something accomplished there and we can lock down loose nuclear weapons that could fall into the hands of terrorists."

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

"So if you have a combination of a silent condition, a combination of lack of access to early detection methods, then what you get, when women find they have something, usually the tumor has grown, has metastasized."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02