This frame was load-bearing, meaning that the steel skeleton would support the building's weight, not its walls.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

In the same way, evidence must be designed perfectly if it is to frame an innocent person to make him or her seem guilty.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

but that,by our frame of government, that principle has not been made one of legal obligation;

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Nash studied the works of seven important painters who lived during a one hundred year period, a time frame similar to that of jazz.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

To frame someone is to create false evidence to make an innocent person seem guilty.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

To build the houses, he fills a wood frame with tightly packed bales of straw.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Michelle Brody's "Arbor Lace" is an outdoor structure with a frame made from copper pipes.

VOA: special.2011.06.15

A hoop house is basically a metal frame covered with plastic or other all-weather material.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Some word experts say the expression to frame someone comes from the way wood must be fitted closely around a painting or photograph to frame it.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

A good frame of mind is the start,he says.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The structure was built using a steel frame.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

"That is the case today. And it is the first time any president has acted outside the June 1 time frame,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

The final summit communiqu simply said NATO leaders agreed "these countries will become members of NATO" but no time frame was given.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

We have not. We have a stimulus which is targeted in a time frame to make the difference,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.10