The president's appearance was a final opportunity to fire back at Republicans on the issue before an expected Tuesday vote in which majority Senate Democrats are expected to be able to break the Republican roadblock.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Now, what they did was--they were clever psychologists so they set it up in a study where the people did not know sexual orientation was at issue.

他们都是聪明的心理学家,他们设计了一个实验,实验对象并不知道研究的是同性恋问题。

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So hopefully, it was a time issue in terms of looking at the periodic table, because let's have you tell me what are we looking for here?

希望刚才大家出问题的原因,是因为看周期表有时间限制，请大家告诉我,我们在这里找什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It prompted urgent consultations between Clinton's traveling party and officials in Washington and was an issue in the Secretary's day-long set of meetings at the APEC forum, including a bilateral meeting late Wednesday with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11