Before the meeting Pope Benedict celebrated a large open-air mass in Valletta, attended by thousands of people.

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

How would it strike you if you knew nothing about it, if you had never heard of it before, if you open up the covers of this book for the first time?

如果你对新约一无所知，如果你对新约为所未闻，如果这是你，第一次翻开新约，会有什么感觉？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Some of the most open exercises of states' rights, of course, before the 1850s, were conducted by Northerners, like in the Hartford Convention of 1814, like in personal liberty laws that we'll come to a bit later.

州政府最早开始尝试行使权力,还是在十九世纪五十年代之前,由北方人主导的,就像1814年的哈特福德公约,就像我们马上要说到的个人自由法

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday she is open to hearing from all members of the House Democratic caucus before the talks begin.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Roberts says US farmers in general support the bill before Congress that would open the way for the export of rice and other food commodities to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The leaders are under pressure to achieve a breakthrough before the EU summit in December, when Turkey could be sanctioned for its refusal to open its ports and airports to Cypriot traffic.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Baucus said he hopes for some Republican support and that he will be open to amendment suggestions, but none that would pose a threat to a bill that would go before the Finance Committee.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

In an open letter to Mr.Sanha and Mr.Yala before Sunday's vote, the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation and the International Crisis Group called on the losing candidate to "refrain from taking any form of violent actions that could further undermine the fragile stability in the country."

VOA: standard.2009.07.26