In fact,the two spacecraft almost touched each other before they separated.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Pachauri however says that the controversy should not take away attention from the fact that Himalayan glaciers like those in other parts of the world are in fact retreating due to global warming.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

I'm not aware if they took any other valuables, but what is a fact is that the ship was saved, it was rescued, and it was delivered to the harbor, and it is still there,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

"We continue to monitor production of Russian mobile missiles to ensure that in their production of the SS-27 mobile , they are not also building,covertly, a missile called the SS-20 which was banned during the Reagan years [So there are a large number of measures which allow the governments to be confident that the other side is in fact carrying out the treaty,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

"At the same time,we have,in fact, started studying the draft proposal, and we are in fact working and elaborating on all details of these proposals, from technical aspects and all other dimensions, and I will inform the director general of the IAEA next week, as soon as I'm back to Vienna, about our evaluation."

VOA: standard.2009.10.24