It's a memory from childhood or it's eating something that you know you weren't supposed to, but you did it anyway and really enjoyed it.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

And Mexico would say, 'Well look, if you weren't consuming so many drugs, we wouldn't have the problems we are having.'

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

"There was a feeling that if you weren't participating in the discussion, you weren't living up to expectations for the classroom which really wasn't how other classrooms worked.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"If you happened to be a Taino who lived up in the mountains and you weren't in the sun a lot and maybe your skin was a little lighter, then they threw you in the 'white' bucket."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"What would you be doing this summer now if it weren't for this job?

VOA: special.2009.08.20

"No,you taught me to navigate people's minds; but after what happened, there weren't a whole lot of legitimate ways for me to use that skill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

You can't focus completely on pleasing them because you'll never win and then you're excluding a whole other world of people who weren't aware of the comic in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

You were a stubborn child, weren't you?

VOA: standard.other