They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

It covers all things that involve the heart and define the effort of man to rise above the mechanical process of life."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

This idea developed long ago in British common law to define the responsibility of teachers toward their students.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Event organizers define "airness" as the ability of a performer to go beyond playing an imaginary guitar to create a new art form.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

the saying goes. But the debate over net neutrality could define how free the exchange of information is going to be in the future.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Now,more cases will be needed to define the legal limits of business method patents.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

This is partly because I.C.C.members could not agree on how to define aggression.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

"The crux of what this study is all about is that we define a new pathway where the brain talks to fat."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

It was on a bus trip through an Afghan desert that she first encountered the faith that would come to define her spiritualism.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"When you are going three miles a minute, it can be hard to clearly define that."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

"I think we have to define more precisely who we are, what we want, what kind of influence we can exert now in Europe or in the world, ".

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

"That's how I see writing." "It's not so much that it makes your identity, but that it helps you see it, and it helps you be able to define it better and understand it better.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

While talk of what success is and how to define it went on in London, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told NATO colleagues in Brussels that the current operations should be seen as an opportunity to bring moderate Taliban members into the political process.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26