But the acquisition of radioactive material for a so-called 'dirty bomb,' which is radioactive material that is dispersed with a conventional explosive device, that is not that challenging.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

"This 30,000 against 10,000 is a conventional battle,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

The first step uses a bit of influenza DNA to get the patient's immune system to begin fighting off the flu, and then the protection is given a "boost" some time later by the second step, which can be either another bit of DNA or a conventional flu vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

That's an excellent question, especially looking into factors that affect the return-generating process in the stock market-in other words, factors that affect the stock prices in a conventional sense: Market liquidity, length of the daily fasting period, especially contrasting summer months with winter months when Ramadan coincides with one versus the other, with the length of day being really longer during summer months.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

What is really meant by the term defeat, in the parlance of conventional military aims, when facing a shadowy global terrorist network?,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

No.Not my cup of tea,I'm afraid." There is also a view that conventional graveyards help to preserve history and display the spirit of a community.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Conventional colonoscopy is performed with a long, flexible tube called a colonoscope that is equipped with a tiny fiber-optic video camera and light at the end.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

"A willingness to question conventional wisdom and rethink the old dogmas."

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

The United Nations Security Council later imposed sanctions on Pyongyang, which have impeded its efforts to sell conventional weapons abroad, a major source of income for the cash-strapped nation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

He told a gathering in Washington recently the alliance is doing important things to ensure its security from conventional threats and from new ones like terrorism, piracy and cyber attacks.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

The International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental energy advisor, has projected an almost in conventional oil production by 2020 and the potential for a serious gap between supply and demand by 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

So if you have a mass killing of an ethno-religious group, carried out by a government in order to eliminate those people from their homeland, or to destroy their political and cultural potential - that is,by the conventional definition and most scholarly definitions, a genocide."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18