As you can guess from the name, hand puppets are worn on and controlled by the puppeteer's hand.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

And,in fact, if we added in taking notes and doing tests in class, most of the writing done in school is done by hand."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

This wall may work as well and last as long but it is not as pleasing to look at as the one built by hand.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Other controls include turning over the soil, pulling the weeds by hand or covering them with mulch made from wood, garden waste or other material.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

But in other cases, the mines must be carefully dug out by hand.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

Tucker does all his work by hand, using only pictures of the buildings.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Since then, scientists have been studying the ship and bringing to the surface many of the artifacts -- things made by hand -- that they have found.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

Until the nineteenth century, all cloth was made by hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

On the other hand,he says, the world understands the threat posed by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and that serves Israel's interests.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

He says having relief supplies on hand will help alleviate some of the suffering experienced by people forced to flee their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Dr.Mark Hamer's study on the psychological impact of second-hand tobacco smoke appears in the Archives of General Psychiatry, a journal published by the American Medical Association.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

If the computer system is down, the records have to be kept by hand.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

And many of the cigars that the men smoke are hand-rolled right in Little Havana by craftsmen who brought their trade with them from the Cuban capital.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The documentary is the first ever to provide a first-hand look at how the group's medical teams respond to emergencies caused by war, infectious disease or natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

One of the most closely watched cases involves the rights of gun owners in the city of Chicago, where the city's ban on hand guns is being challenged by 2nd amendment advocates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Today it is a museum. Inside are precious artifacts from the family's daily life, including scraps of hand-written poetry and the manuscript of a polonaise written by young Frederic when he was eight-years-old.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

He says the public has a right to be angry about the latest tale of abuse: the decision by insurance giant AIG to hand out big bonuses to executives, even though taxpayer dollars are keeping the company afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

and coalition forces to the Afghans. Announcing an increase of 30,000 U.S. troops last week, U.S.President Barack Obama said they will begin to hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces by July of 2011, but he did not say how long the transition will take.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Perhaps most importantly, there is the clash between world views, where on the one hand, there is the democratic and progressive trend embodied in the venerable and still extant tradition of Arab liberalism, and on the other hand,the bloody and violent current represented by far too many of the region's seminal figures."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The State Department said Monday the administration still has a hand extended to Iran despite the chilly reaction by Iran's supreme leader to Mr.Obama's videotaped holiday greeting to Iran late last week, in which he said the United States seeks honest engagement with Iran's Islamic government based on mutual respect.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23