The most that can be said -- if so much -- is that slaves are property.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

"That tail tells you the direction the blood was travelling. So if your tail is pointing that way, which direction was your blood going?"

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The people seem so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking hands with a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

But this insurance policy is going to cover the farm inputs that we use in the farms, so that is going to give us the certainty of going back to the farms again if the rains do not come."

VOA: special.2010.05.11

"The reason is that those plants are going to get so big that if you were to put three or four or six plants in, they are just going to be crowding each other out, and each plant is going to underperform."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

Captain Camara says politicians seems so afraid of the support that he is receiving, it is as if they are lost.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

So the money is available somewhere if the priority is decided that tackling climate change is what we have to do."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"So that even if the World Cup is over they will feel that they should come because of the experience that we gave them."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Danny Jordaan says the vuvuzelas are being evaluated on an ongoing basis and that a ban is an option "if there are grounds to do so."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"There is so much talent back here. And I know that this might sound outrageous, but if someone reads that book, perhaps it will not sound so outrageous.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"If you find that the road is not paved, or that the road is paved but breaks down because the corruption is so bad you do not get standards and quality, then you have got a major problem.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

We had to say 'well,that is great. If you can get here that is fine, but we are shooting in Adelaide.' So once they jumped in, the film went to a new level and the fact that we had their support was huge."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

"I think they were entitled to take action against a budding dictator. But even if they weren't, it seems to me that it is not so clear that he is in the right that the United States should be meddling in Honduras' affairs."

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

So I think that is somewhat premature. We have said previously if you go back to what the European Union has said that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but the conditions are not there as of yet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17