It started out playing progressive rock and producing concept albums.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

"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

Consideration of a minority patient's language, customs and beliefs by virtue of their heritage is a concept known as cultural competency.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

(SAYING) The concept of short lessons that can be played over and over again attracted high school senior Bridget Meaney.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

The cause,says Abbas, is the misinterpretation of the concept of jihad, or the struggle for Islam, by radical leaders and many clerics.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

"Because they're apples and oranges. The concept of autism was very different in the past."

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

"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

"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

Sullivan,who also served as dean of the historically African-American Morehouse College School of Medicine, says medical schools are beginning to incorporate this concept in educating and training the next generation of health care professionals, regardless of their race.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

I mean,I think that knowing how HIV basically gets transmitted is something that people are afraid, that people know that they have had extra-marital sex-the whole concept of men who have sex with other men-- it's a big taboo, and the region does not want to admit that we have these groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

And on the other side, Georgia is not a unified country, large parts of it now are occupied by the Russians who claim that these parts are independent states so I would say that this is not on the agenda,' Experts say the debate has now shifted from a fast track approach for Georgia's and Ukraine's NATO membership the "Membership Action Plan" concept to "eventually" becoming a member of the Western alliance.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04