Many outsiders sum up "Frenchness" through a series of cliches berets, baguettes, good cheese and wine.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Members of the Recording Academy, which encompasses professionals from the entire musical community, vote through a series of ballots, the last of which were tabulated on January 8.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

The agreement aims to help pave the way toward creating a series of gas pipelines from central Asia and the Middle East through Turkey and into Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

The so-called Red Shirts, supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have mounted a series of targeted demonstrations, ranging from ritualistic blood curses to head-shaving to noisy parades through the streets of the capital.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27