In trying to improve his lovely wife, he had failed to realize she had been perfect all along.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

And she says her near death experience has made her realize what really matters in life.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

We're thrilled, until we realize it's still daylight and the fireworks are in actuality gunfire.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

"We want to partner with the Egyptian people and their government to realize their aspirations to live in a democratic society that respects basic human rights.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

Then they realize they all have something in common their love of music.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Still,she says her books reflect the Nancy Drew stories that she read as a child: "Things that I read as a kid keep cropping up in my own work whether I realize it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

It was enough to be in the presence of this great anchor I so admired, and to realize he was not above having a beer at the end of a very long broadcast with low-level support people.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

It is a very good step. I just hope that Hamas and others in the Palestinian camp will realize that."

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Sociologist Justyna Kopczynska from Warsaw University explains that young people in Poland realize that the communist government was repressive.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

"People don't realize that President Obama has really intensified the effort to go after al-Qaida central in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

Why did it take so long to realize that released prisoners were involved in the planning of this?

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

"It's obvious. Because only in a free society, a person can realize himself and then develop the country,science, production on a highest standard.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

But we started to realize that money was not going to the schools in good time, and when we were asking for reasons, they would not give the reasons."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"They stress over and over again in domestic propaganda, 'we are not going back to the six party talks.' Now I realize that North Korea has said in the past has said in the past, it ain't coming back, and then it comes back anyway,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.26