He most always was a winner. If there was a dog-fight, he would try to win money on it.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

If there was a chicken-fight, he would try to win money on it.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

"There are so many unintended circumstances when you try and 'gerrymander' the economic system to try and meet your political objectives.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

"But we have inputted our folks in there, creating a fire break around the area to try to slow that fire."

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"The first stage, which is kind of concrete, they try to do something where there is some measurement involved.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

You know,I thought there was a possibly an opportunity there to try and turn a pest into something that might be profitable."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

But Sharif has to get out there and try to regain the political territory lost to al-Shabab,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

But he said there is still time to try to avoid that through sanctions and diplomacy.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

And there are still those who would try to kill reform at any cost,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

"These are dangerous tasks." "There are still those with bombs and bullets who will try to stop Iraq's progress, and the hard truth is we have not seen the end of American sacrifice in Iraq."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

But in seven years, he's off to college. This has given me tremendous impetus to try and develop this technology and get it out there and make it available to people with type 1 diabetes before my son goes to college."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"But having learned lessons from the first elections that there was widespread fraud, irregularities and fraudulence, we will try our best in close coordination with Afghan leadership and Afghan institutions and other international major partners to make this election as fair and free of fraudulence,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"She's not lying. I think I've eaten lunch once in the past week, and we literally run from one event to another, across traffic and through crowds and crowds, but it's very important that we make a good impression so we try to get there on time, and that sometimes involves running."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26