"This year,however, there were some very promising clinical results that indicate that it may be starting to work the way that people always hoped that it would.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

"But President Obama is starting to show that he is not quite as popular, or that he does not walk on water in the way that many people thought at the beginning of his term and his popularity has come down."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23