Still,murder rates in the United States have generally been among the highest among Western democracies since the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

But Russia itself has no worse loss for the United States right now could find ways to keep us so tight down in the Middle East for a decade that we could do nothing else.

俄罗斯现在还没有对美利益造成太大损害,有办法,让我们紧紧围绕在中东问题上,在十年内我们只有束手无策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

First of all, it's not a coincidence that in both England and in the Dutch Republic you had, along with the city-states of Northern Italy, you had the largest percentage of middle-class population that you could find in Europe.

英国和荷兰共和国,以及北意大利的城邦,拥有全欧洲比例最大的中产阶级人群,这是有它的必然性的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

By the middle of the nineteen-twenties, there were two main radio networks in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie because it is in the very middle of a group of states in the Deep South.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

In the middle of the eighteen forties, the United States offered to buy California from Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Grange supporters won control of state legislatures in a number of middle western states.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Sam,his friends and the United States Army are caught in the middle.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The United States began to expand west during the middle eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Diamond argues that the United States must use more than vague encouragement if it wants to see real democracy in the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The largest numbers come from the European Union, followed by the Middle East and the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

In an American TV interview, Middle East envoy George Mitchell said the United States could withhold loan guarantees if Israel fails to advance the peace process.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

Brumberg argues that U.S.support for democracy in the Middle East will advance President Obama's vision of an improved relationship between the United States and Muslim-majority states.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Iran's Arabic-language network, which is aimed at a mostly Middle Eastern audience, also ignores internal dissent and criticizes Arab governments along with the United States and Britain.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The peace institute's report says that the United States has often put its security interests ahead of its desire to see democracy spread throughout the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The United States,which is a sponsor of the Middle East peace talks, says Israeli settlements are an obstacle to peace, and the issue has strained relations with Israel's right-wing government.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

In the heart of the Navajo Nation, in the middle of the high desert many kilometers from any town, one finds the only point in America where four states come together.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Nearby,on massive balloons, one can see the Colonel of a decade later, the man who backed extremists and terrorists, a pariah dubbed by the United States the "Mad Dog of the Middle East".

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Mr.Obama,a day after brokering the first face-to-face meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since the Gaza war late last year, said the United States will continue its pursuit of a two state solution to the Middle East conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

The head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East,Paul Salem, says Arab states like Libya and Egypt are trying to demonstrate they are independent of the West by striking a middle-ground with respect to President Bashir.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The tone of the Obama administration's reaction to the settlement freeze was set by U.S.Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who told reporters that while the United States shares Arab concerns about the limitations of Israel's gesture,it is more than any Israeli government has ever done.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"What is important for our friends and partners here in the Middle East to be assured of is that the United States will be very open and transparent about these contacts, and we will keep our friends informed of what is going on so that nobody gets surprised,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

Meir Javedanfar,an Iranian-born Middle East analyst in Tel Aviv says that he thinks the United States will have to make substantial concessions before the Iranian leadership considers improving ties with Washington: "I think if America can offer Iran something that has equal value or exceeds the value of Iran's nuclear program, then the Iranians might consider it.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

"Even if President Obama,tomorrow, returns what remains of the Iranian assets, if President Obama condemns Israel, if President Obama withdraws all American forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and if the United States announced that they recognize Iran as the most powerful player in the Middle East, Mr.Khamenei will bring some more excuses to prevent the resumption of talks and relations between the two countries, because "death to America" is something which extends the regime's life,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.21