And many farmers growing GE crops have seen economic benefits like higher yields,lower costs, and more flexibility than their conventional-farming counterparts.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

There you can actually do sort of substance analysis which you can't really do by conventional x-ray."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

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

In addition, Islamic finance differs from conventional Western methods by focusing on profit-sharing, with wealth generated through trade and investment in assets, such as property or commodities.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

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

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

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

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