To many people,the ability of a cell to reproduce itself is the definition of life itself.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

That's a new definition of greatness."

VOA: special.2009.01.16

"It re-defines the definition of a cash payment back to the previous terms of payment after the ship has been loaded;

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Plant says this definition, which first appeared in a 1930 ILO Convention Against Forced Labor, is still valid today.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Applying that definition, I do not think one can consider what happened here a case of genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

McChrystal has reportedly requested thousands more troops to help him make Afghanistan a stable, secure country, and eventually able to look after itself, his definition for success there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

And that definition argues that a genocide is the intentional killing of all or part of a designated people defined by their faith,their race, their ethnicity or their nationality."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

In 2006,the Russian parliament passed anti-extremism legislation that expanded the definition of extremism to include the slandering of a public official, hindering the work of authorities and involvement in hooliganism or vandalism for ideological, religious or ethnic reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

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