John Kress,a botanist and curator with the Smithsonian, says the team that created the exhibit had a different idea.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Removal from office would have established the idea that the president could serve only with the approval of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

That is when a government takes ownership of a private business, often with the idea of selling it back to investors later.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

It is meant to support the idea that traditional Christian beliefs can coexist with science and evolution.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

When I wrote 'blue cathedral' there is a huge English horn solo in the middle of it, and that's actually the first idea I came up with."

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Ting-Chi Wang leads us to the permanent exhibition called With a Single Step. She says that the exhibition about Chinese immigrants in America was based on the idea of a heros travels.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

The point is to defend the rights of people you don't agree with. That's the idea of a democracy, that all opinions are heard,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"And on that fateful trip from New York to Hollywood, Walt came up with the idea of using a mouse for his next cartoon character.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

"It has serious trouble in the sense that those who are wedded to the idea of a permanent global jihad with Somalia as a staging post are now in the driver's seat,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

"Republicans have been able to get some traction with this idea that the government is expanding in all kinds of ways that are going to have unintended consequences and unforeseen effects on your lives,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

"It is my hope that the mosque will help to bring our city even closer together, and help repudiate the false and repugnant idea that the attacks of 9/11 were in any ways consistent with Islam."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

"Advance provision of emergency contraception is the idea that providing women with a packet or several packets of pills in advance of need will allow them to access the medication more quickly, and that by accessing it more quickly, they'll be able to use it within that recommended time frame."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22