"We cannot have a militarized model of diplomacy and development and expect to be successful in making our case on all these other issues that we engage with governments on."

VOA: special.2010.05.29

In any case, I thought I'd begin today by making a few remarks about the title of our course because it has some big words in it "theory" and "literature,"but also "introduction."

我想先,谈谈这门课的名称,因为里面有几个大词：,理论，文学和介绍“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What if we have a case where making an exception and violating individual rights actually will make people better off in the long run?

如果有个特例,侵犯个人权利,长远来看，反而让人们获益更多呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Barack Obama in his decision-making is like a lawyer dissecting a case.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

And though you see there's something, you know-- I've been making the case that a polis is a different thing from any other city state.

尽管你了解了一些,你知道,我一直在说,城邦和其他城市国家是不同的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In a speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama referred to the Gulf oil spill in making the case that it is time, as he put it, to "aggressively accelerate the nation's transition to a clean energy economy."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14