When completed in several months time, the Mombasa port will join some 20 others in the world participating in the so-called Megaports Initiative set up by the U.S.government in 2003.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Other countries had set up central banks following on the Bank of England but the U.S. didn't set up a central bank; it set up a system of twelve banks and they were regional.

其他国家依照英格兰银行,建立了自己的中央银行,但是美国没有设立自己的中央银行；,美国建立了十二个银行的系统,并且这些银行是区域性的。

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I just wanted to show you this last graph, or this last set of statistics to go from causes of death in the U. S.

我想让你们看的最后一张图,或者说最后一组统计数据,不是关于美国人的死因

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The report will be discussed at a U.N.biodiversity meeting set for October in Nagoya,Japan.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Mr.Obama says the bill is aimed at the industry practices that set off the U.S.financial crisis in 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Mr.Mubarak is due to visit the White House, later this month,and U.S.aid to Egypt is set to increase by around 25 percent,this year.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

That large data set allowed them to analyze information for the 50 U.S.states separately, and also to identify trends by race and gender.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The Obama administration says the United States will follow interrogation guidelines set forth in the U.S.Army Field Manual,which conform with U.S.and international law.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

They also warn that terrorists who cannot be convicted might be set free in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

U.S.President Barack Obama set the tone, warning against trying to go it alone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

The original bill allocated but legislators decided to raise the amount to $50 million after hearing the U.S.Congress voted to set aside $50 million for broadcasting to Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

He says the U.S.military is making every effort to meet the priorities set by the Haitian government and the United Nations to determine which flights are allowed to land.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

In a White House bill-signing ceremony Wednesday, the president reaffirmed a goal he set out early this year: to double exports of U.S.goods and services in the next five years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

While the military has not publicly set a date for any major operation in the area, U.N.officials say some 80,000 civilians have fled the region in anticipation of a new offensive.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Speaking at a Moscow news conference, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said the first meeting between U.S.President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart,Dmitri Medvedev, set the basis for practical cooperation between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

BP's losses for the past quarter amount to some $17 billion, due to having to set aside more than $32 billion for costs linked to the oil spill off the U.S.coast in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

The secretary discussed the new set of U.S.and Iraqi priorities with both Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Defense Minister Abdal Qader al Obeidi, saying there were "important milestones to achieve" before the final US pullout in 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

The visit by Secretary of State Clinton to Iraq comes on the heels of a wave of bloody suicide-bombings which threaten to destabilize the country, just weeks before U.S.troops are set to withdraw from major Iraqi cities.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

At a similar gathering last year, members of the so-called G20 set of advanced economies agreed on emergency spending to stem a global crisis brought on by the collapse of U.S.investment bank Lehman Brothers in late 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

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

The two presidents met for the first time on the sidelines of the G-20 economic conference in London in early April and set in motion what Clinton says is an effort to raise the frequently contentious U.S.-Russian relationship to a higher level.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

The report noted that 165 Iraqis were killed during May from insurgency-related violence, less than half the April casualty figure of 355.U.S.-led forces in Iraq are set to withdraw from all Iraqi cities by June 30, in accordance with a security pact signed between the United States and the Iraqi government,last November.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01