Kurdistan Prime Minister Barham Saleh stressed the need for the vote to be perceived as open.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

The government also harshly criticized correspondents, international organizations and aid workers who it perceived of having a bias against it and sympathy for the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Darfur rebels rose up against the central government in 2003 after years of perceived marginalization.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

To help determine what a country's brand value is, Anholt created the Nation Brands Index, a survey that ranks 50 countries on how they are perceived overseas.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

"We must gain the initiative by reversing the perceived momentum of the insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

They do not deal with the perceived link to terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

"If you look from the Arab side of the view, the Arabs are as concerned if not more about the Israeli perceived nuclear weapon program as Israeli is perceived about the Arabs,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Zbigniew Lewicki, a specialist in American studies at the University of Warsaw, told the Polish Radio External Service that there is also concern about Russia's perceived attempts to increase its influence in former Soviet satellite states, including Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

is not a prudent step to take," In their letter to President Obama, the lawmakers voice concern that any perceived military success in Afghanistan might create pressure to increase military activity in Pakistan possibly leading to dangerous destabilization in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

"In terms of foreign policy where Iran comes in, all three parties are following the same interventionist policies which gave us the Iraq war, the wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world and I think on that even the Liberal Democrats - despite being perceived as softer - they're following the same underlying policies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

"I think this will reverberate very loudly in the region, and you will see it perceived especially by our enemies, by the Taliban and al-Qaida, as an admission that America is losing its will and is not committed over the long term, and they will be able to convince their recruits to wait the U.S.out,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06