City officials believed that offering promotions based on the results would violate the nineteen sixty-four Civil Rights Act.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

The purification offering acts on the sanctuary, not on the offerer.

净化祭是对圣所起作用，而不是对献祭者。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You have a freewill offering--just because someone wants to do this, a freewill offering. And you have a vow offering that would be offered on the successful completion of a vow, for example. And these sacrifices are all entirely optional.

自由祭品--只因为有人想这么干，自由祭品，还有一个誓言祭品,举个例子，一个誓言如果成功达成，便会供奉祭品，这些祭品都是可选择的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The U.S.has demanded a complete freeze on settlement expansion, including natural growth, but Mr.Netanyahu is offering a compromise.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

He accused Mr.Obama of offering "disingenuous attacks" rather than answers on job growth.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

With more colleges and universities across the country now offering childcare programs on campus, she hopes other teen mothers get the message that having a baby is no excuse to quit school.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

We hope that there is good progress." Israel is offering a partial settlement freeze: construction on 3,000 housing units in the West Bank will continue, but no new projects will be approved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"We wanted to get a little more hands on knowledge because our school wasn't really offering those kinds of courses or classes, so we wanted to not just sit around and read a book but actually do something,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

He said Iranian authorities have used meetings with countries like Brazil and Turkey to appear to offer what he termed "a veneer of cooperation" while really offering nothing in terms of a meaningful response on the nuclear issue.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton comes to Cairo after angering many Arabs by offering praise for an Israeli offer to curb settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land, an offer that was met with outrage by many Arabs, who continue to demand Israel halt all construction.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05