Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel is close to losing what he called its "best friend" in the area.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

is very close to its surface a kind of anal-phase parable.

和那种肛门期的寓言很像。

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Land protests last year forced the company to close its factory in the Indian state of West Bengal.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

But Somalis say some of its members are believed to be Somali factional leaders with close ties to Ethiopia.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The military sounded confident that victory in its campaign to wipe out the Tamil Tigers is close at hand.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

She says the global campaign that WHO started in 1988 is very close to achieving its goal of ridding the world of this terrible paralytic disease.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

In 2006,Japan and the United States agreed to close Futenma and move its facilities to another Marine base with a heliport built on reclaimed land offshore.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The Japanese say the powerboat repeatedly came very close to the factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, while activists tried to entangle its rudder and propeller with a rope.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

(It's more that problems make us think.) (SAYING) Koesmayadi says he is lucky to have such a close family at Rumah Cemara, and he will keep its doors open to those in need.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Several Iranian politicians close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have demanded Tehran ship only part of its enriched-uranium stockpile abroad until some of the batch shipped to Russia was returned in more highly enriched form.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

General Motors says it will lay off nearly 50,000 employees this year and that it plans to close five assembly plants, eliminate thousands of dealerships and reduce the number of its brands from eight to four - all in an effort to stay afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

An expert on nuclear proliferation at the RAND Corporation in the United States, Brian Jenkins,says because of its proximity to Somalia and its close ties to the West, Kenya is vulnerable to the worst-case scenario, where an al-Qaida terrorist unleashes a "dirty bomb" in Nairobi causing the death of thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

"We felt like no matter how non-violent you were, unless you had a law on the books or a decree by a court, that the same restaurant that could open up its door to a black person on Monday could close it on Tuesday if there were no law demanding it be kept open."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

"The decision by the administration to back away from its missile defense commitment to the Czech Republic and Poland can only demonstrate to the rest of Europe that the United States is not prepared to stand behind its friends, that the United States views resetting its relationship with Russia more important than commitments made to close friends and allies, and that the administration is willing to let Russia have veto power over the disposition of our missile defense architecture,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.24