The decision came a day after President Manuel Zelaya urged U.S.leaders to take tougher actions in condemning his removal from power more than two months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

We banned that drug and I haven't heard anybody saying that that was a wrong decision, that we should allow pregnant women who want to sleep better to take a drug that will mean their children are born without limbs.

我们禁止了这种药物的使用，但我们从未听说,有人认为这是个错误的决定，也从未有人说，我们应该允许,失眠的孕妇使用这种药品,即使她们的孩子可能从出生就没有四肢。

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And that would often actually the right answer to take, is to not just compromise among your advisers, but use your own principles to make a decision.

而且通常情况,他的观点是对的，并不是向智囊团的意见妥协，而是根据自己的原则做决定。

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"I am open-minded about anything that makes us more credible as match officials, but as I've said earlier, it is a decision for the people to take."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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