"It brought home the fact that this is what we do this for."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"Well,I know the family so I would be here anyway, But even if I didn't, it's the fact that Lena Horn is an icon of American history.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

"We view the Iranian announcement, if it is in fact accurate and implemented,that they intend to build 10 additional facilities, as completely inappropriate and further isolating Iran from the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

"We become afraid to use those services. We don't trust the fact that when we put our data into one of these cloud service providers that it is actually going to be protected."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

I'm not aware if they took any other valuables, but what is a fact is that the ship was saved, it was rescued, and it was delivered to the harbor, and it is still there,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

Saying the Senate stands at a historic moment, Dodd took note of the fact that the final bill is not all that many Democrats hoped it would be, but said it is a foundation that will be improved upon.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

So it is in fact the result of positive moves, which the Mexican government has taken to break the baneful influence that many of these cartels have had on many aspects of Mexican government and Mexican life,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"The fact of the matter is it helps our athletes, it inspires our kids, it really embraces all that the Olympics has to offer all of us as a country, as a community and as a world."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"Our presence in Afghanistan only fuels the insurgency there, and it is an insurgency that is based now upon the fact that people are occupied, as opposed to having any ideological ties with the Taliban or with al-Qaida or any hatred of the West,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The fact that the show is now coming to an end, and we're ending it on our own terms as opposed to the show is being canceled, or went on three or four years after it should have, really generates this tremendous excitement."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24