Congress will take its annual long recess in August, and Democrats hope to use the time to build support for health-care reform around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

So I think at least in our own case, it's not that I wish things were different, but I know we have to constantly balance and reinforce and build and sort of reinforce the behaviors we need in whatever business at that point in time.

所以我想至少对我们而言，并不是我希望事情能够有所不同就可以的，但是我知道必须不断的作出平衡,并加强，创立，再加强自身,在这个时期不论从事什么都必须这样做。

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"A sense that a step is made to release prisoners, and the government is trying to build some bridges in certain areas, but at the same time, the revolutionary side is given its moment in which Fidel Castro is able to excoriate the United States and to continue to lay out the revolutionary credentials, or Cuba's role as a leader of the Third World."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13