"For many years, we would point our finger, particularly at Mexico,and say 'Please stop sending your drugs across the border to us.'

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

The point is this is why lots of people thought, "I don't like this guy sending people around and taking my taxes, but I don't want to get offed by some marauders.

这就是为什么许多人会有这样的想法的原因,"我不喜欢有人派兵来统治我们,收我们的税,但我更不希望遭人劫掠

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It would make no point in those aliens sending messages our way at this particular time."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Nobody's feelings are hurt, they tell me, but the entire point of sending a valentine in the first place has been deliberately destroyed.

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EarthLink will lease the old copper telephone wires connecting homes to their local telephone company, converting calls into packets of data at that point before sending them over telecommunications wholesaler Covad 's (otc: COVD - news - people ) national data network.

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Even my hoops-agnostic mother is sending me articles about Louisville point guard Peyton Siva.

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