Supporters say the standards are goals and do not tell states or teachers how to teach.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

All right. So let's test what we, in fact, know about the photoelectric effect, and before we do that actually, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful and we can tell whether we're successful or not.

好的，我们来测试一些，我们实际上懂了,多少光电效应的东西，在我们做测试之前，我们先算一下我们能预知什么，这样我们做的测试会很有意义,并且也知道我们是否成功了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I'm not going to tell you what you want to do except to say, you would never pick a point below the minimum variance portfolio, right?

我不是教你怎样去组合，当然了，你不会选择一个,曲线上最小方差点以下的资产组合，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Germont sighed. "I do not want to tell you the exact amount.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

And we think, having pieced it together, that it was this guy Madni, but we do not know, so the piece of litigation that we are bringing is to ask the government to tell us who it was,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"I think when it comes down to questions of hard cash and state budget, the European governments will feel they are doing what they can and it is not really up to the United States to tell them what to do,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

"We are able to do these transplants locally. We have got the expertise in this country and the only thing that we needed to do is to publicize and tell them, 'Yes,you do not have to spend all the money and go outside there, leave the comfort of your country and the beloved ones to have the transplants outside there - we can do it here."

VOA: standard.2010.05.30