Justice Sotomayor is expected to generally side with the liberal minority on court, following in the footsteps of the man she replaced, retired Justice David Souter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

"The problem with resistance means that we might be facing a situation where our currently, mostly susceptible epidemic is replaced in a decade or two by mostly multi-drug resistant disease,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

To make matter worse,according to Sosa, the government has fired thousands of technicians from the state-owned oil company,PDVSA and replaced them with workers whose primary qualification is their loyalty to President Chavez.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06