"So when foreign companies start negotiating with local Chinese suppliers, they really press hard on the prices offered by those Chinese suppliers."

VOA: special.2010.06.18

Then you push hard on the chest thirty times.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

The cowboys worked hard on a trail drive.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

He had worked hard on the speech.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

But sumatriptan has side effects and overuse of medication can be hard on the body.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

This is really hard on women." Abdel Rahman welcomes the new station.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Afghanistan's hot and harsh terrain can be hard on footwear.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Iranian security forces are once again clamping down hard on an opposition demonstration in a Tehran cemetery called to honor those slain during weeks of unrest, following the June 12 election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

Making this life change is hard on all fishermen, but for the Vietnamese and Cambodians here, the language barrier is an added obstacle in trying to reach out to BP for work and compensation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

So if we can get better at giving people triggers of when to leave early, which we will work very hard on doing, then people evacuating themselves is the safest thing to do as long as it's early enough."

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

"We need leaders who are committed to moving New Jersey forward, (Applause) and that is John Corzine, which is why you need to work hard on Tuesday!" A Republican sweep will be seen by some as a rejection of President Obama's policies and could embolden Republican efforts to win congressional seats in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

This week on our program, we tell you about a few kinds of foods that some Americans find hard to resist.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

This might be hard to do when the teacher is writing on a board at the front of the classroom.

VOA: special.2009.09.06