"When we praise what the Palestinians do on security, it is meant to send a signal that progress is underway, and it is progress toward a two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it is important to send a clear signal to the Afghans that more responsibility for running and securing their country is coming their way.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Georgian political analyst Romaz Sakbarelidze at the Strategic Research Center in Tbilisi noted the NATO exercises were planned long before the August conflict, and said it would send the wrong political signal to cancel them now.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

I know where your mom is. I know where your brother is buried. When people come up and say we know where so and so is it's a signal to us that the reconciliation, the coming together of Hutu, Tutsi kind of business is really in progress and we are really happy with it,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.10