It has easy appeal for the bully because it does not involve face-to-face contact and it can be done at any time.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Proposals to raise their taxes to help pay for the plan face objections, and not just from the Republican minority in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

These Incan buildings face severe damage if the number of visitors is not more carefully controlled.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

The victim has lost color in the face and does not appear to be breathing.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Northerners did not like his declaration of federal weakness in the face of secession.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

It would be a rare-face-to-face encounter between diplomats of the two countries, which have not had formal relations in 30 years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

They claim they do not want to politicize the face veil, but most French agree this has already been done.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

"With the magnitude of the challenges we face, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

If passed,such legislation is expected not just to single out the veil, but generally ban any article covering the face in public.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

"Because in a way I really was not expecting the type of problems that we face there."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

"The militants do not fight conventional battles." He says he expects the military will face an enemy deeply entrenched in the mountainous and remote region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

And,he says it does not address some of the bigger issues NGOs face, like violence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

Auriemma said he was glad he did not have to face the disappointment of losing after his team played so well during the regular season and the tournament.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Among its recommendations, the panel said Israel, and Hamas which controls Gaza, should face potential prosecution in The Hague if they do not conduct independent and credible investigations within six months.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Sudan's Committee of Islamic Scholars has urged the president not to attend, for fear of his safety, providing Mr.Bashir a possible way of saving face while backing out of the trip.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

But he said it will not damage the traditional warm relationship between the United States and Britain and that U.S.officials accept at face value British denials that trade considerations affected the Scottish decision.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

It was kicked off last June by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who announced in a major speech that the face veil, which he called a burqa, was against French values and not welcome in France.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

So the fundamental issues are not going to go away,". These are the fundamental issues that Hariri will have to face again in a series of talks scheduled until next Tuesday with various other parties including militant group Hezbollah.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25