Usually, a person is clowning around if he is being funny when he should be serious.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Fairey says he is not guilty. He says he is being punished for suggesting that public space should be filled with more than just advertising for companies.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Some say he is being realistic.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

Mr.Ahmadinejad's assault against opposition leaders comes at a time when he is being criticized by his own supporters for using poor judgment in trying to form a new government, and while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has softened criticism of the opposition.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

And Neptune with a Trident is helping lay the trans-Atlantic cable which was just being laid when he was painting this."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

There should be some sense by the end of the year,he says, whether or not serious progress is being made.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

His name was never in the papers. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

That is a hard question,he says, because there are so many kinds of music being made right now.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

But he says being in a wheelchair is still often a problem in his neighborhood in the Bronx area of the city.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

said average Joe. He was being a doubting Thomas, someone who does not believe anything he is told.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

He says the methane discovery presents scientists with a mystery because it is still not clear how the gas is being produced.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

He says about two-thirds of the cost can be paid for with money that is currently being "wasted,"

VOA: special.2009.07.25

He said,"What is the use of being elected or re-elected, if you don't stand for something."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The song is about what he had hated most about being in the army.

VOA: special.2009.12.20