This Cuban music or "son" is defined by the beat of the drum and the call of the singer.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

On Tuesday,the United States will hold congressional and state elections in a year defined by voter dissatisfaction.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

She refused to be defined by party politics or racial comparisons.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

The key populations as defined by the study are the people who are mainly drug injectors, men who have sex with men, and sex workers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

The text defines genocide as the intentional killing of all or part of a designated people defined by their faith,their race, their ethnicity or their nationality.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

"There is no doubt that there was, in fact,a state organized, systematic deportation and massacre of a designated population, defined by their religion and ethnicity,namely the Armenians."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

And that definition argues that a genocide is the intentional killing of all or part of a designated people defined by their faith,their race, their ethnicity or their nationality."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

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

A "tornado outbreak" is often defined as six or more tornadoes produced by the same weather system within a day.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The Justice Department says domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior used by one partner in any relationship to control another partner.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

"President Obama has made it clear that the United States will not be defined simply by what we are against, but by what we are for the opportunity,liberties, prosperity and common aspirations we share with the rest of the world,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06