"This is very serious. That's why the rice will not go back to the level that we used to see,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

"This is why I said to them . we have to reach this agreement, they did not believe it.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

"It does not cover the nuclear issue. That's precisely why we think we need an early meeting.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"We have had a lot of inquiries about that,". "And it does not have anything to do with why we are actually down there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

All of these did not happen, so that's why we are extremely disappointed,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

"We have seen too many elections around the world and it is why we reserve a final assessment to an end of a process not as the process is still unfolding,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

If so,why am I risking my life for this mission if we are not there to win it?" But more troops alone will not secure Afghanistan,says retired Staff Sergeant Brian McGough.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"And the biggest problem that we heard from our economists with regard to why employers are not hiring, it is all the job-killing policies that are being offered by this administration and this Congress,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

"The reason why I do not think it is likely is because of all the resources we have put on this, considerably more than the last administration did, to see to it that it will not happen."

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

"Why should we be encouraged to lease large tracts of land for bio fuel production that we are not eating to make money and use that money to import food?" Ghana's Agriculture Ministry says private sector farmers are free to do what they like with their land.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23