The designs and images on the surface of a tapestry are woven into the cloth as opposed to being only on the surface of the cloth.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

These are students who felt under enormous pressure to perform, and I want to underscore the word 'perform,' as opposed to 'learn.'" She says the hardest lesson for society may be that young people will grow up lacking interest in learning.

VOA: special.2011.07.14

Richard Weindruch explains. "Our data show that there is about a three-fold higher risk of developing a disease of aging in those animals fed the normal diet as opposed to those that have been on caloric restriction since they were adults."

VOA: special.2009.09.01

We are trying to create jobs so everybody can make their own living as opposed to depending on the government for a hand-out."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

You're looking at it and feels like someone's over your shoulder talking in your ear, as opposed to someone at the blackboard, that's distant from you."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

That is one of our allies is the fresh water holding the oil out in the open water as opposed to coming into the isle marshes and stuff."

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

It is the first time President Yadav has urged the new government be formed under a majority banner, as opposed to one built with a full consensus from all 25 parties.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

"Our presence in Afghanistan only fuels the insurgency there, and it is an insurgency that is based now upon the fact that people are occupied, as opposed to having any ideological ties with the Taliban or with al-Qaida or any hatred of the West,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The fact that the show is now coming to an end, and we're ending it on our own terms as opposed to the show is being canceled, or went on three or four years after it should have, really generates this tremendous excitement."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Under the state of emergency, Thai authorities are closing hundreds of Web sites as well as newspapers and broadcasters opposed to the government.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Terre'Blanche's group, known as the AWB, opposed ending apartheid and staged bomb attacks in the years leading to the country's first democratic elections in 1994.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Even as women's groups applauded the code as a way to combat the forced marriage of young girls and give wives more economic power, many Mali women opposed it as an attack on traditional values.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27