They told her that a beautiful voice can be destroyed if it is not trained.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

He told CIA employees that it is time for the nation in general and the intelligence community in particular to move forward.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Grybauskaite told journalists Sunday that the economic tensions show it is time for change in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

... Twenty-six year-old Louis Jacques Franto told us if the government wants to move us that is fine, as long as it is safe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"What was told in Tbilisi,I think, that as far as it is not connected to any real moves made by the Obama administration it is nothing serious or the Kremlin."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Secretary Geithner told the House Financial Services Committee Thursday that it has become clear there is a need for better and tougher regulation in a complex and flawed financial system.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

After briefing the U.N. General Assembly committee that deals with these issues, Muntarbhorn told reporters that food aid is important, but that it should come with a "no access,no food provision".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Mauritanian representatives for the U.S. -based National Democratic Institute told reporters in Nouakchott that the group will not monitor the June vote because it is a unilateral decision against constitutional order.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

While talk of what success is and how to define it went on in London, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told NATO colleagues in Brussels that the current operations should be seen as an opportunity to bring moderate Taliban members into the political process.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

A Western diplomat close to the EU meeting in Harare told VOA it is clear that Mr.Mugabe is blocking full compliance with the political agreement in order to buy time to rebuild ZANU-PF, which has been weakened by internal quarrels and a loss of popular support, even in its traditional strongholds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15