Would you want a doctor who got high marks in medical school just for trying really,really hard?

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Yet some who got them at A.I.G.have already left.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

People in the third group were on their own. Those who got personal counseling did the best, regaining about four kilos.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Particularly employees who got them into this mess in the first place. I think it is an outrage."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian actor who got an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in the Quentin Tarantino film "Inglourious Basterds."

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

They are the ones who put on demonstrations. They are the ones who got people out.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

She is a classically trained musician who got started in show business in the 1950s as a harpist on television, with the glittery pianist Liberace.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"There was de Coubertin who started the whole thing, there was Avery Brundage who saved it during the cold war era, and Samaranch who got it, if you like,from the 19th century into the 21st century."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"And so the appeal like now, ex-speaker appeal that he should resign - his business is finished in Kyrgyzstan and so all those people who have been killed and who got wounded they are victims of this regime."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"No," you say,"it just can't be true! Who told you?" Comes the answer, "I got it by the grapevine."

VOA: special.2009.02.22

He got high praise, too, while others who knew a thousand times more than he were sharply criticized.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

He got high praise too, while others who knew a thousand times more than he were sharply criticized.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Ken Irwin told how he got the idea to start a record company after meeting someone else who wanted to do the same.

VOA: special.2010.04.19