"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

She did not dare to look down and tried to forget that her fingers hurt and her feet were bleeding.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

White families who did not want to live near them repeatedly tried to force them to move away.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

This is not a subject that many media programs have tried to explain to very small children.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Another was tried and found not guilty of rape charges in nineteen ninety-one.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

I tried again to rise,and again, but still I could not move.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

He tried to fight them. But he was not strong enough.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

None were tried. Brown himself did not want to escape.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

She tried to put the pieces together but could not.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

It tried to stand up, but could not.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

He said this is not the first time Iran has tried to hide its nuclear activities from the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

But Brennan told NBC that all terrorists arrested on U.S.soil are tried in civilian court, whether or not they are American citizens.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

I tried that out on my parents.Not even close. Guys, I'm going to the prom with Eric.

VOA: standard.other

World leaders have already tried to temper expectations, warning that the current crisis did not come about overnight and will not be resolved in such short order either.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

He said in his opinion, the president has the same immunity as the members of parliament, so it is not possible for President Gul to be tried as long as he is president.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Speaking at a news conference at NATO headquarters Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden said the situation in Afghanistan is different than that of Iraq, but not so different that such a strategy could not be tried.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

That cannot and will not happen anymore." As the president spoke, robots at the bottom of the Gulf tried to move a tube into the pipe that has pumped millions of liters of oil into the water.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

The paper's authors tried to take into account other factors, but they admit it may not have been entirely possible to quantify differences in, for example,the recipient's health, which can be a big factor in the success of a transplant.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"They are so complicated that if you tried to estimate how many ways you can make a snowflake, you get a huge number not just billions or trillions, but bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19