Each trawl is basically a rope strung with twenty-five lobster traps - wire cages,each the size of a big trunk.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"You see the river is a tree line, and all this is basically fresh-water marsh."

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

With all that decision-making on their own, this is basically coming in lieu of that."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"Well,there are three basic paths they can go through. The first one is the Standard Model, which is basically the theory of what we know now.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

"The market is basically focusing on the fact that the economy has slowed."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"The nation's brand is basically its image, its reputation," "Whether you are talking about getting tourists, or getting investors, or getting talent or getting respect, attention,and so forth.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

It is basically a lack of law and order there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

After these latest sentences were handed down, UDJ spokesman Siye Abraha questioned the death penalty in what he called a 'political case.' "The overall problem in the country is political and the solution is basically political.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

"What it means,if you look at what they are really advocating, is basically withdrawing state funding from public services such as schools and police forces, and really just asking people to do more by themselves."

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

"I don't think anything there was a surprise. What the assessment says is basically, things are catastrophically bad in Afghanistan, which is,I'd say, objectively true, but that things are not unsalvageable, that we can turn this around as long as we stay dedicated to the appropriate strategy and fully resource that strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

"If the monsoon basically fails or is a very weak one, the trees affected by monsoons at that location might put on a very narrow ring.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

"This is Derek and I have another son,Dillon. I basically looked through baby books and just found names that I thought were a little bit different.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

the ocean basically is unexplored from the point of view of marine organisms."

VOA: special.2009.01.13

"So what we're hoping to do is build this device that would transform basically visual information into auditory information and then tap this amazing reservoir of the blind brain to process sounds and tactile information."

VOA: special.2010.10.13