"While passions and politics can often obscure the hard work before us,let's be clear about what this moment demands, we are at war,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

The Iraqi people are known for intelligence, hard-work and courage, and we will stand with you,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

We're all out here trying to work hard and trying to clean up this mess."

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

"We are working hard toward an agreement. It is clear we have the major elements of an agreement in place and now we have to do the hard work of conforming the treaty and some other small negotiations,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

So if we can get better at giving people triggers of when to leave early, which we will work very hard on doing, then people evacuating themselves is the safest thing to do as long as it's early enough."

VOA: standard.2009.06.24