He stressed the threat posed by militants in the region is too great for the United States to pull out.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

The faculty members who were teaching his classes that semester then all faced the question posed to them by the administration, based on the work he's done so far this semester, ? has he--what kind of grade are you prepared to give him?

那个学期给他上课的老师们,都面临这个由学校,摆在他们面前的问题，基于他这个学期至今的表现，他能否，你们打算给他什么样的分数？

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But he made clear it is regional in nature - designed to deal with the threat posed by militants and extremists on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26