For players, the distinctive sound of jazz has derived not from acquiring a conventional classical technique on an instrument, but from emulating the spontaneous twists and turns of an impassioned voice.

ECONOMIST: Jazz singers

What got her there was not the solid training and technique expected from Russian students.

ECONOMIST: Russian violinists

But his cells came from macaques, not humans, and his technique involves destroying the embryo.

ECONOMIST: Human embryonic stem cells

In the run-up to the vote on May 6th, in which the Liberals, Labour, and Greens increased their strength at the expense of the Christian Democrats, the Netherlands deployed a technique that did not prevent politicians from promising the moon, but at least forced them to come clean about the cost.

ECONOMIST: Dutch courage

The technique, called volumetric display, is not that different from the spinning, slitted cylinders of 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

FORBES: Technology

They usually run their scam through the Ponzi technique: They pay off older investors with money from new investors, not from real returns.

FORBES: Familiar Faces Can Be Flashy Affinity Fraudsters

Republicans spent much of the 1997 appropriations season battling the administration over its plan to use statistical sampling, a technique that uses data from the traditional head count to estimate the number of those who did not respond to census takers.

CNN: By Juliana Gruenwald, CQ Staff Writer

Furthermore, although identifying the signs and symptoms of influenza in travellers can be an effective monitoring technique, it is not effective in reducing the spread of influenza as the virus can be transmitted from person to person before the onset of symptoms.

UNESCO: CONFINTEA VI