"Assuming that North Korea is responsible for the Cheonan incident, then it is appropriate for the government to respond at the level it has."

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

"It would be prudent and appropriate for WHO, together with our member States to continue to monitor the evolution of this pandemic for the next six to 12 months,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

(Voice) He says the yen's current strength reflects a skewed movement in the market, and adds it would be appropriate for Japan to take action to stabilize global financial markets.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Scotland's most senior prosecutor Elish Angiolini maintains a court is the only appropriate forum for determining guilt or innocence and she says she deplores Megrahi's efforts to put his information out into the public domain via the Internet.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"We have to make sure that the compound will be sufficiently efficacious to be used in the clinical setting, it has to be safe, and again we can make the drug sufficiently cheaply that it will be appropriate for the use in the clinical setting."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

And so when you can find an artifact that very comfortably dates the site to the appropriate period, that's exciting for an archeologist."

VOA: special.2011.07.26

"If children were exclusively breastfed for six months, continued to breastfeed up to two years, with appropriate additional food from six months onwards, we could save 1.5 million children under five years of age out the 8.8 million that we estimate to die currently every year."

VOA: special.2010.08.04

"How can we possibly assign powers to a systemic regulator if we have not fully examined the appropriate roles for the existing regulators?

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

And we decided this was an appropriate time for Senator Mitchell to go to Syria.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with the German Chancellor at his side in Berlin, told reporters Sunday this is an appropriate time for an overall assessment of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"The report also fails to deal adequately with the asymmetrical nature of the conflict or to assign appropriate responsibility to Hamas for its decision to base itself and its military operations in heavily populated areas,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

And so,we wanted to do a systematic review of all the literature, find all of the appropriate studies and pool them to see if together, there's a benefit for replacing saturated fat specifically with polyunsaturated fat."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

That prompted a strong protest from China. U.S.military officials deny they bowed to pressure from Beijing and moved the maneuvers from the Yellow Sea, saying the Sea of Japan actually is the most appropriate venue for this drill.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26