He was facing charges on forgery in a court of law but he hired a good attorney to ________.

They intend to remove the ________ rules and regulations that are discouraging foreign investment in their country.

American Indian languages, which differ widely, tended to group many units of meaning into multisyllabic words.

The teams selected to put up their best in the competition, with excellent credentials and evidence of genuine curiosity and creativity.

A larger brain makes man________to animals.

It is now clear that no such creatures as vampires have been seen and none been found in the world.

As a conductor, Leonard Bernstein was famous for his intensely vigorous and exuberant style.

Prof. Clark disregarded the warning from his colleagues and continued his research work.

The search for eternal youth is no less fervent now than it was 2,000 years ago. People are trying practically anything.

"Holmes!" I whispered. "What on earth are you doing in this disgusting place?"

The government has hardly taken measures to crack down on these crimes when new ones occurred.

Some people wish to amend the law so that children must stay at school until they are 16.

When she returned back by abroad, she told us all about her experience as an illegal immigrant.

John Smith has a blog at The Lonely Planet Times, and you can listen to a live audio stream by clicking this link below.

The advocates — mainly family therapy doctors — are applying a new approach to everything from marriage conflict to psychosis.

His peers admonished him that he had to increase his study time as the final examination was around the corner.

Our neighbors are so reserved and unfriendly that they never speak to us.

In the popular mind, the Internet is the realization of the global village, where the flow of information and ideas is unimpeded by distance or national barriers. Much has been written【C1】______ the technology and the benefits that this system of unregulated information exchange will bring. But【C2】______ has been very little discussion about the languages — human, not computer languages【C3】______ are being used on the Internet. Central【C4】______ the ideology of the emerging Internet community is the freedom of the individual users to express【C5】______ as they like. Nevertheless,【C6】______ recently, it has been very difficult to communicate through the Internet in any language【C7】______ could not be expressed in the standard English alphabet as defined【C8】______ the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). English is already the premier【C9】______of science and technology worldwide. The peculiar restriction of 【C10】______ able to communicate with only the limited ASCII character set has worked to further encourage the 【C11】______ English, especially by those【C12】______ native language is not normally expressed in some version of【C13】______ Roman alphabet. In fact, it seems to be typical that【C14】______ accessing a network in a non-English speaking country【C15】______ is often presented with a choice of the local language (s) or English. Many of the national networks that have now linked 【C16】______ to the Internet are used【C17】______ scientific and technical communication, 【C18】______ a rapidly growing portion of the Internet's community are nonprofessional people. Familiarity with English may be assumed【C19】______ a linguist or a physicist, but growing【C20】______ of users with no English language skills are joining the net in spite of the dominance of English in message forums and mail lists. Messages on the Usenet newsgroups are overwhelmingly written in English, and the bulk of the moderated mailing lists (including the Linguist Discussion List, and international E-mail discussion list for linguists) are conducted in English.

He remained calm in the face of the impending danger.

The senior senator has in the past three terms both experienced the sweet taste of success and the bitterness of defeat in his legislation fights with his opponents.