"This was a first and therefore you had to deal with his absurd and vile policies and the analysis of them had to take a long time and you had to get right down deep into him and how he thought,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"So we raise her up every morning We take her down every night, We don't let her touch the ground, And we fold her up right.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

And the next minute you would see that frog dancing in the air and then come down all on his feet and all right, like a cat.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

"We're in the Rotunda, right in the center of the United States Capitol, and starting from the top down, the very top is the fresco painting called the "Apotheosis of Washington".

VOA: special.2010.01.27

I am looking down right now.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Some people write going down. Some people write from left to right, some from right to left.'" Another educator, Kate Foy of the British School in Washington, says the teacher's role is to enable students to discover for themselves.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

Right now we have about I would say 15 to 20 percent down from what we expected to be.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

"The first thing is not numbers,". "It is to find and fine-tune the right approach to implement the strategy already laid down.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

"We reached over 30-percent in 2005, but right now we are down to 27.1 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

"It focuses them and makes them buckle down and do the right things in life." At 25, Thompson fought his way to become World Lightweight Boxing Champion.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

- Do you want to go?- Yeah. DJ: All right, slowing it down.

VOA: standard.other

Spain ,with its cachet of international stars, tried everything in its bag of tricks, attacking from the right,the left, and down the middle, but the Americans were a step quicker all night.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

In 2008,the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington,D.C.law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

"A little disappointed last night with the weather that got us, but we fought the weather last night, and it was just not the right time to launch yesterday, so we stood down, got into it today and it really rewarded everybody extremely well."

VOA: standard.2010.02.08