"So I am compelled to ask: does it really, really take 100,000 U.S.troops to find Osama bin Laden?

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

You talk to these people who were standing in front of the bank; the first question you'd ask them, aren't deposits insured in the U.K.

你去银行门前,与排队的人们交谈,先问他们,英国的存款

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We might ask for people from the U.S. and people outside the U.S.

也可以比较美国人和外国人的

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"Do you foresee any circumstances in which the Iraqi government will ask the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The general described the effort as "hard work." Several civilian experts General McChrystal invited to help with an assessment of the situation have said they recommended he ask for more U.S.troops.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

The general has not made a specific troop request, but experts say he could ask for as many as 40,000,maybe more, on top of the doubling of U.S.troop strength to 68,000 in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, notes that a 2005 report from the U.S.Institute of Medicine found that marketing to children makes them more likely to ask for and eat unhealthful foods.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24