Foreign students represent a valuable resource, especially when public colleges and universities face budget cuts by states.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

The idea, of course, is that we have a legal entity--a corporation-- that issues shares that are either given to people or purchased by people and the idea is that shares represent contributions.

最初的做法是,一个法人实体即公司,发行股票,然后发放或卖给人们,理念就是,股票象征着贡献

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Bridges protected by structures that look like barns represent historic small-town America.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

are also regimes that are seen increasingly by their own populace as either illegitimate or repressive or disconnected from the societies they claim to represent."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

They have been allowed two visits by Swiss diplomats who represent U.S.interests in Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Apart from the severe human rights violations, Plant says,the profits pocketed by traffickers represent lost tax revenues to the States, as well as lost earnings stolen from the victims of forced labor and trafficking.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21