"And clearly the goal that the president laid out back in March that we should deny al-Qaida and the Taliban safe haven in Afghanistan continues to be the goal,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"Iraq has known many challenges. And in the past several weeks we have seen that there are still those who would kill innocent men, women and children to deny the Iraqi people the future they deserve.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Ben Hassine Lassaad, the secretary general of the Tunisian Writers Syndicate, says that his membership is facing a crisis, "We can't deny that we have writers who aren't working,"he said, writers who are suffering from poverty, writers without social security, without housing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09