"We will have one opportunity on the 17th , and then stand down and allow them to play through.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

"In order for us to keep our home land safe, in order to maintain our way of life, in order to ensure order on the international scene, then we cannot allow vicious killers to have their way,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Conscious that a faraway and costly war doesn't play well with voters, incumbent Gordon Brown insists the troops are fighting to keep Britain safe "We have got to be clear that we cannot allow terrorists to have territory in the world that then they use as a base to attack the United Kingdom."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24