In my high school graduating class, I certainly was not voted most literary boy.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

"I agree with Judge Douglas," Lincoln said, "that the Negro is not my equal in many ways certainly not in color, perhaps not mentally or morally.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

"And so they would travel to places where certainly white people in the thirties and forties would not work too much in black communities, because there was so much antagonism between black and white at that time racism toward African Americans.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

As for worries about a larger debt crisis in Europe: "The EU is certainly not in danger of disintegrating."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"Certainly,to tie the hands of our commanders and say we are not going to conduct air strikes would be imprudent,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

"The attitude in these states is certainly different than it use to be, and not for the better,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"Certainly we want to locate him and we want to negotiate with him, negotiate just regarding the resignation not about other things."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

If the crash had not happened,he says, Komorowski would almost certainly have won in the first round.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

It's certainly not a nice moment. It is not a gentlemanly thing to do to steal the spotlight from all of his peers."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

but Jackson insists it is not that simple. "Certainly we did not want to make a film that casts judgment on people's religious beliefs,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

Democratic pollster and Pelosi advisor,Celinda Lake: "Politics was certainly not something that was new to her."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

That certainly was not the case during the latest gathering of the Cabinet of the Maldives.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

The American people could not have been impressed with that display, and I certainly was not."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"We are seeing progress. It's probably not as fast as we would like it to be but certainly the direction of travel is positive.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01