If your friend cannot stop talking about something because she thinks it is important, you might say she has a bee in her bonnet.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Not that I am saying the opportunities are so great, because of course there limited opportunities if you compare it to America, but I think one of the biggest things is literally just motivation."

VOA: special.2011.03.03

North Korea has warned it will pull out of nuclear disarmament talks, if international sanctions are imposed because of the launch.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Twenty-four-year-old Lukasz Pawlowski says he agrees with the ban, if only because it protects the feelings of older Poles.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

"This is because such failure, if it were allowed to occur, would have serious negative consequences for generations to come."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

"Everyone is half-dead. It does not matter if you shell them because you are shelling a dead body."

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"It is better to forgive. Because,if you kill my brother, then I come and pillage your family.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Because of the oil-rich bran layer, it spoils quickly if not refrigerated or stored in vacuum-sealed bags.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

"Also it took away a lot of your fear of melodrama as well because it felt kind of seismic, if that's the right word.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

But if it gets in here, there ain't no telling because nobody went through this before."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

(Speaking) "If there is an agreement, it will be a good thing for the people here, because in this time we have become dead,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Because if we can keep the alignment straight then the seals work fine. It's between the mating and de-mating that we get the misalignment problem,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Because if you just have random bones lying around, it's hard for someone to come in and look at it and understand what the animal looked like in its entirety.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"We have to do this because it's a problem that is today in Greece, but if we don't fix it in Greece it may have a lot of consequences on the rest of the European Union."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28