But six months ago, NATO set up a new command for training the police, and its officials say they are working to eradicate the culture of corruption and ill-discipline.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Even though decentralized England expands its bureaucracy and collected taxes much more efficiently than across the channel in France, state-making involved more officials there.

即使是在分权的英国 官僚政府也日益扩大,他们比海峡对岸的法国有着更多苛捐杂税,现代国家的形成需要更多的官员

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The results of the two short flights made space officials believe the Mercury program was ready for its first orbital flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

In two thousand seven, officials ordered Comcast to stop interfering with file-sharing programs used by its Internet customers.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Officials say the African Union will hold its big meeting in Kampala this coming week as planned.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

European officials hope to avoid the crisis that could spread if Greece fails to pay its debts.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

She says Choir officials are contacting past and present members for celebrations of its tenth anniversary.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

And officials said Pfizer will have to make "detailed disclosures" on its Web site.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

In Dangam district,eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade is on its way to a meeting with district officials.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

U.S.officials maintain the aid package is meant to strengthen the bilateral relations and help Pakistan fight its growing insurgency led by Taliban militants.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

U.S.officials say the heavily armed cartel often carries out murders, kidnappings and assaults to further its reach.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Government officials and opposition supporters have publicly sparred in recent days over whether the protests are unnecessarily distracting Pakistan from its battle against militants.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

Three-quarters of the world's AIDS deaths in 2007 were in sub-Saharan Africa where most health officials recommend condoms as a way to prevent its spread.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Palestinian officials said their decision hinges on whether Israel rescinds its plans to go ahead with more construction on lands that Palestinians claim as their own.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

The United States withdrew its ambassador from Damascus in 2005 following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, in which Syrian officials were implicated.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

U.S.officials plan for the shuttle to fly its last mission in September 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Afriqiyah said its crewmembers were Libyan. Officials in South Africa reported most aboard the flight had planned to make a connection in Tripoli and fly on to various destinations in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The P5+1 last year presented Iran with a revised offer of incentives for it to halt a uranium enrichment effort U.S.and European officials believe is weapons-related and return to negotiations on its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

Besides the presidential couple, all other people on board the plane reportedly died, including the country's army chief, its deputy foreign minister, the Central Bank governor and scores of other officials, legislators and crew members.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

"It is a very decentralized movement." "It is not hierarchic, so I do not think the arrests or the killings of its senior officials have ever had any impact, any significant impact on the movement."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Officials have said the plan for Iran to export uranium for processing abroad under safeguards for its medical reactor could be a model for a broader deal to resolve concerns that its nominally-peaceful program is weapons-related.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

As the furor continues over the hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses the American International Group gave to its employees, President Obama and administration officials face pressure from Republicans, and some Democrats, about his budget priorities.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

General Petraeus appeared to be pointedly rejecting suggestions by some analysts, and some officials and members of Congress, that the United States should scale back its ground operations in Afghanistan and focus on air strikes and special operations missions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Officials say the deals have shown to the Pakistani public that while the government has honored its commitment to militant demands for Islamic courts in Malakand, the militants still have not put down their weapons or halted their expansion beyond the Swat valley.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27