involvement in Afghanistan. On one hand, congressional Republicans are pressing the president to beef up U.S.forces to ensure a victory over al-Qaida and the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"We believe that, with the experience of Thailand handling this situation in the past two decades, where at times there were several hundred thousand came over the Thai borders this is,on one hand,serious issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

I think it is a combination of a very,very distinct special language on one hand and then on the other, she has really a story to tell about growing up in a dictatorship but also growing up as a minority in another country and also growing up sort of a stranger for your own family.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

"And who also are comfortable with their Americanness on the one hand and comfortable with Islam on the other hand."

VOA: special.2010.08.05

"We cannot be telling banks, on the one hand,raise capital right away, and on the other hand lend more."

VOA: special.2010.09.17

To perform the compressions, place one hand over the other and press firmly on the center of the victim's chest.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

Numbers can be tricky. On the one hand, they are simply numbers.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

"On the other hand a former foreign minister I spoke with said one of the problems is that there is an identity crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

"Children,many of them are used as suicide bombers as well as fighters, on the one hand, that girls schools are attacked on the other.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

On the one hand, there is Iran and its allies in the so-called "resistance" block, including Syria, the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"Total schizophrenia. On the one hand, the government is moving with this Kurdish opening and this opening towards Armenia and many other things on its way.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

First Lady Michelle Obama is the great-great-granddaughter of African slaves "I think as Americans and African-Americans, obviously,there is a special sense that on the one hand this place was a place of profound sadness.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

"There's a classic one here which is lads walking to work, it's early morning you can see on the left hand side there's a band which is very typical of these big work institutions,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

One man appreciates cheap domestic gasoline, sold at pennies per liter, but adds "on the other hand, if the price of gasoline were higher, maybe there would be more funds for roads and other projects."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06