To sort out the confusion, Hashibe and her colleagues used statistical techniques to, in effect,make one big study out of the previous smaller studies.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

Someone would bring the meat. Someone would bring the dressing. And we would all sort of combine the efforts to have a family Thanksgiving dinner and bring out the good china for that particular event.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

And then feeling that sort of sense of calm that comes as soon as you push out of the gate."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Those things will ultimately keep us stronger and protect us better than any sort of effort to stomp out who we perceive as the bad guys,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

Me making it into AFL will make them, will give them more opportunities and give them confidence to sort of go out there and do their own things to better themselves."

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

"Earlier this year, the sort of strident sort of criticism that you heard coming out of the White House certainly indicated that there was displeasure with the disfunction of the government in Kabul,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

"The aftershocks will start off being fairly large and fairly frequent, and then sort of peter out as time goes on, although you will see aftershocks for weeks to months after the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

"I was appalled. When you read through it it's sort of like it's a memo out of some science fiction movie - I mean, the temperature of the air can't be any lower than thus and so, you can't do it for any few minutes.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"I am one of the few new guys." "I definitely have been able to get a sort of perspective of what to expect and what to look out for in terms of managing the added pressure and different situations that are above and beyond something that I have ever encountered."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

"They sort of organize a group sometimes with Christian people who keep their children out of public schools and sometimes with Jewish people, and they have curriculums that you can actually study on the internet and the parents can supervise their children, that way they feel that they can protect them the best way."

VOA: standard.2010.07.12