"We provide care for elderly people, for mothers to be, for newborn babies,for children, and we provide long-term care for certain groups of patients who have what we would describe as chronic illnesses,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

The band members describe themselves as a new band made up of old friends.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

People often describe the deep color of the Cattleya lip as "showy."

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Some people describe the pain as throbbing, causing pressure in the head.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

He would rather people describe his music as having repeating structures.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

As officials describe it, they lost him for a time.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Cluster headache patients describe the pain as burning.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Interviewed on the BBC, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he could not describe the vote as "free and fair."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"I think one needs to recognize given the current state of relations it is difficult to describe it as a strategic one anymore.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Australian officials describe the expulsions as unreasonable and provocative, while Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended the decision Wednesday to expel Fiji's most senior diplomat.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04