"There's this incredible leap of faith, on the part of the singer, where you're just hoping,sort of,beyond hope, that somehow this works,right?

VOA: special.2011.05.09

"It makes for this haunted sort of sound. It's a little bit like a wine glass, when you play a wine glass.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Yet he says this message is often more scary for people than the idea that leprosy is some sort of spiritual punishment.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

"The sort of foundation product that we serve is lefse, this Norwegian potato flatbread, and I grew up eating that every year at Christmastime.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

"One thing,unfortunately, that I think we have seen is some of them that are interested and partake of this industry are really,sort of, resisting the progress of women, I guess I would say.

VOA: special.2011.02.14

"We discovered this bicycle co-op. You can come in there and just sort through a whole garage of old parts and they'll teach you how to basically build a bicycle from the scraps."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

"I tried to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"All of this is contributing to an underground, sort of 'black' economy, which is very difficult for any of us to measure and gauge.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

She says this problem can be remedied with the right sort of counseling.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

It's done,but it's hard for her to get to the point where everyone is going to accept that and this is the one that it, sort of,happens in."

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"But they illustrate what I want to try to do in this book,which is to just broaden the thinking to get away from this traditional sort of radio search.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

To this day in Little Havana, the food, including black beans and rice and frita cubanas - hamburgers of a sort, topped with grated fried potatoes - is Cuban.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

"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