The U.S.envoy said he will return to the region in the near future to try to build on momentum generated by the Israeli gesture toward a resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Instead of trying to pursue those alternative theories in a systematic fashion, let me just gesture toward some of the things that seem to be missing from that kind of life.

我们不去系统地研究,那些理论，在此我要例举一些,那种生活似乎所缺少的东西。

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Kendra Kielbasa says the Be a Santa for a Senior program succeeds because it brings the community together in a collective gesture of love and caring, and that,she says,is what the Christmas holiday is all about.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

"Yet,at the end of her life, in an incredibly telling gesture, in a funeral that she scripted before her death, she picked six of the family's workmen,laborers, gardeners and stable hands to be her pallbearers.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

In a gesture full of symbolism, Chancellor Angela Merkel crossed from one side to other, accompanied by VIP guests, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Polish labor leader and president Lech Walesa, and civil rights activists of 20 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09