But just what constitutes torture has been a matter of debate in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

The court is also scheduled to consider whether a law that prohibits pictures of animal cruelty constitutes a violation of free speech under the 1st Amendment to the U.S.Constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

It's an incredibly social environment that really constitutes the breakthroughs."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The failed terror bomb plot constitutes Mr.Obama's most serious national security test to date, and the president has been quick to acknowledge that there is plenty of room for improvement.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

A majority of scholars and historians agree that the massacre of an estimated one million Armenians during World War I constitutes genocide as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19