The study is described as the first to demonstrate the indirect spread of happiness.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

Sleigh Bells is described as noise-pop.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Mr.Hawass is often described as a colorful leader who has brought Egypt's long-ago past to the attention of the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

The solar water heater described here is based on a design developed some years ago in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Thailand's political crisis is often described simply as a fight between the poor and the rich.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

In the late eighteen eighties, a North Carolina farming publication described America's economy this way: "There is something radically wrong in our industrial system.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Of all the printing forms we have described, silkscreen is the only direct method.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

So she made Nancy Drew independent or "spunky" as she is often described.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Her music is often described as complex but accessible, appealing to wider audiences.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

It is the kind described in Twain's book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

VOA: special.2010.03.21

This idea is often described as "the separation of church and state."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

As one writer described him: "Theodore is always the center of action.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27