"It's never been as important and opportunity for America as it is right now."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

"There have been millions dead between us,he said, and it is now our duty to cherish the friendship between our two peoples as a special treasure,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

"As President Obama insisted and as part of the Israeli Knesset believes, Israel has to now give clear guarantees that it is not going to expand these settlements.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"Our presence in Afghanistan only fuels the insurgency there, and it is an insurgency that is based now upon the fact that people are occupied, as opposed to having any ideological ties with the Taliban or with al-Qaida or any hatred of the West,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to refuse to sign the declaration to protest Cuba's absence from the hemispheric gathering, and to protest the document's failure - as it is now reportedly written - to demand an end to the U.S.embargo of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

The fact that the show is now coming to an end, and we're ending it on our own terms as opposed to the show is being canceled, or went on three or four years after it should have, really generates this tremendous excitement."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

"They have not got their acts together. So I think the Swat operation has sent a very strong signal and if the government now starts an operation in even Waziristan, which is considered as a hard nut, I think it has good chances to succeed."

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

I think it's the political implications of this missile test that are noteworthy-and that is that Iran views the talks as dead-it doesn't view the talks positively, and now it's bracing for sanctions and quite possibly for war, and this missile test is a sign that Iran takes the military option very seriously and is ready to reciprocate if it's attacked."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18