"Recent protests in a number of cities denouncing the lack of electricity is a sign of potentially growing disillusionment and anger over what has become a situation of daily life for the average Iraqi citizen."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"I think that survey shows that, as minorities and women pursue a STEM career, they have to face a number of barriers along the pipeline (SAYING...) and what we need to do as a society is really understand what these roadblocks are."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

The United States national soccer team accomplished what few believed they could Wednesday night in Bloemfontein, dominating the world's number one ranked team and leaving the stadium with a merited 2-0 victory and a ticket to the final of the Confederations Cup on Sunday night in Johannesburg.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

"What we try to do is - for each hospital that we work with - become the number one or number two provider of U.S.patients, so that we really can build a very good relationship with those hospitals and make sure that patient benefits from that."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"When you really look deeper at what the AU is doing and what is happening at the regional economic community level, though the progress has not been what we might have expected a number of years ago, it has changed, and it is a work in progress, and next year this time we might be talking about the next summit within a very different context if we are looking at the political leadership of the day,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Does it need refinement in some way?" "And if it does need some adjustment in light of the events that have taken place over the last number of months, including the election and so on, and then what are the implications of that in terms of General McChrystal's resource request?" The secretary said the United States will not abandon its core mission in Afghanistan, which President Obama described as the destruction of the al-Qaida terrorist network, because it is "critical" to U.S.national security.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23