For example, the Supreme Court ruled in nineteen forty-eight that religious classes could not be taught in public schools.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".

这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Will the best regime be a small closed society ? that through generations has made a supreme sacrifice towards self-perfection? Think of that.

最优的政体会是一个小型封闭的社会吗,经过多代之后，已壮烈地牺牲于自我完善之中,想想这个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If confirmed by the Senate, the fifty-year-old Kagan would be the youngest justice on the current Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

We didn't even have income tax until 1913 when the Supreme Court allowed it, so it was zero, then it went up to 90%-- or actually it was 94% at the peak--and it came down to 15%.

直到1913年最高法院允许征收的时候,我们才开始征收所得税,开始税率是零,而后飙升到90%,然后它最高达到94%再降到15%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In fact, from nineteen fifteen to nineteen fifty-two, the Supreme Court permitted censorship of movies for fear they could be "used for evil."

VOA: special.2011.07.04

Aristotle's political science then is ultimately the supreme science of statecraft a term that again we don't hear much about--statecraft or statesmanship.

亚里士多德的政治科学,绝对是极致的权术科学,这是一个我们不太能听到的词汇,权术或领袖风范。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She said doing so could be seen as pre-judging cases that the Supreme Court might consider.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Manuel de la Pena y Pena -- president of the supreme court -- became acting president.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Early in eighteen fifty-seven, the United States Supreme Court announced one of its most important rulings.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Their case reached the Supreme Court, and in a five-to-four decision on Monday they won.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

Mister Marshall was the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

The Supreme Court took up the case in December, eighteen fifty-six.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

"The Supreme Court has said, for example, if Albert Einstein determined that E = mc squared -- which he did -- he never would have been able to get a patent on that.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Planning for the conference comes as the supreme commander of those NATO-led and U.S.forces, General Stanley McChrystal,is reviewing the overall military strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"Even (Supreme Leader Ayatollah) Khamenei realized that they should not do this with a well-known journalist,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

But his criticism of what he saw as authoritarianism and human-rights abuses led to his being dropped as successor to the nation's Supreme Leader.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

In 2005,then-minority Senate Democrats mounted an unsuccessful effort to filibuster the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was nominated by former-President George W.Bush.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

In the months ahead the Supreme Court will have an opportunity to render important judgments about gun rights, anti-terror laws, freedom of speech and punishment for juvenile criminals.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Several Iranian politicians close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have demanded Tehran ship only part of its enriched-uranium stockpile abroad until some of the batch shipped to Russia was returned in more highly enriched form.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-il is reported to have told Mr.Wen that he would return to the six party nuclear disarmament negotiations but only if North Korea has one-on-one talks with the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

In 2008,the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington,D.C.law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

But in a press appearance here, she said the resolution of the standoff - with the reinstatement of the country's deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry - was a resolution by the Pakistanis themselves and a hopeful first step toward broader dialogue.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16