The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan emphasizes a concept it calls 'gross national happiness,' rather than GDP.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

"A science caf, it's a concept that actually started in Europe, and it was an idea to get scientists engaged in an informal conversation with the general public."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

(Speech) Fujii says the government is saying goodbye to an old concept of growth, a concept that relied on large investments on public projects, an idea that whoever is making money should make more money to help the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The whole concept of Thanksgiving was a little bit bizarre.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

VOA: special.2010.06.06

"When Darwin first proposed his theory in eighteen fifty-nine, he had no concept of a gene, no concept of a chromosome, no concept of mutation, and certainly no concept of things like DNA and RNA."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Esme French, of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center, led a pilot study to test the feasibility of the concept.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Under U.S.pressure, Mr.Netanyahu reluctantly endorsed the concept of a Palestinian state last month, but with tough conditions that were flatly rejected by the Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

"We will start with a new concept, how to improve match control in high-level competition."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Establishment of the council would be a step toward Mr.Gadhafi's concept of a united Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

"I chose to try to make progress, and the concept of burning down a building or lighting a torch just seemed to me to be essentially crazy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

"But I like the concept of knowing something in class but then going back and pressing pause or rewind and actually getting a deeper understand of it."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Former U.S.Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has just finished chairing a team that did a first draft of the Concept, and presented it to NATO officials in May.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

But in St.Louis, a community-run grocery is an untested concept.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28