As you can guess from the name, hand puppets are worn on and controlled by the puppeteer's hand.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Yap Swee Seng, a representative with rights group Forum Asia, raised doubts the commission will be fully independent because it could be funded and controlled within the ASEAN Secretariat.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"This is not part of the political process. The political process is very tightly controlled and the entry to the political stage is very tightly filtered and controlled by the Kremlin.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

She had let herself be controlled by some machine-like force that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Two rulings in the United States could change how information is controlled online and in our bodies.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

They worked through the night and had the fire controlled the next morning, when other men arrived from a camp in the area.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam once controlled a large area of the north and east.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"Corporations." he said. "should be carefully-controlled creatures of the law and servants of the people.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

The seven-member crew controlled a robotic arm equipped with cameras and lasers to scan the surface of the heat shield.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Manure from about 1,000 cows goes in one end and then, controlled decomposition yields methane gas at the other.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

That's where Jake and his colleagues come in: "Me and Norm are here to 'drive' these remotely-controlled bodies called avatars.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

Mission specialist Leland Melvin controlled the robotic arm that helped Satcher and his crew during the space walks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

It was properly powered,randomized and placebo-controlled and really provides evidence for the use of oxygen in cluster headaches,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

He said he and his family are willing to become martyrs for the sake of a Palestinian-controlled Jerusalem and its Muslim holy sites.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

The prosecution says that Mr.Taylor - then president of Liberia -- controlled rebel forces in Sierra Leone who raped,murdered,and mutilated thousands of civilians.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Al-Iryani says the warnings are harming his country, and that Yemen's major cities and almost all its roads are safely controlled by the central government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

The rebels began their guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983, and at the height of their power they controlled vast swathes of territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Researchers adjusted their computer algorithm to the slower insulin absorption rate and on a repeat experiment blood glucose was tightly controlled in all of the subjects.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The system effectively controlled participants' blood sugar for 27 hours, during which time they ate three high-carbohydrate meals and slept through the night at a hospital.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The vote is supposed to take place in the West Bank, which is controlled by Mr.Abbas, and the Gaza Strip which is ruled by its rival faction Hamas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24