Fabian Fernandez, a soil and plant nutrition expert at the University of Illinois, says no-till means less intensive labor.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

Straight No Chaser is an acapella group which means the singers do not perform with any instrumental music.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

When the cat's away, the mice will play means people sometimes misbehave when there is no supervision.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

That means the song is so old, no one really knows who wrote it.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

This means there is no image, just an arrangement of forms and colors.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

This means there were no written scripts and many surprises.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Your secret no longer means death to anyone.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

No party is expected to win outright, which means that whoever comes out on top will have to reach out to other parties to form a government.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

But for him and others that means making little or no profit.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Clinton said Haiti leads the Western Hemisphere in unemployment and infant mortality, yet the Caribbean state's future is by no means hopeless if it receives properly-targeted international support.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

American Chris Klug is by no means your typical Olympic snowboarder.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

"There's no way that a human rights organization can possibly have the means, can possibly have the techniques, and the resources we have, in order to get the most accurate possible statistics.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

A rich harvest is by no means assured,however.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

"Even an optimist like Frank Drake estimates that there would be no more than about in the galaxy, which means that the nearest one is likely to be about 1,000 light years away."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16