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Constitutionally, European nations display characteristic richness.
In Lebanon, sectarianism remains the defining characteristic of politics.
There are more specialized applications of computing and information technology in smart machines and mobile telephones, whose defining characteristic is that they communicate with each other.
The most remarkable characteristic of globalization backlashes is how they create an odd alliance of right and left.
But all of Asia’s strongmen share a key characteristic: they secure public support by preying on economic ignorance.
One characteristic of Swiss law is that it distinguishes between tax evasion and tax fraud.
But so long as Trump is president, orderliness will not be the White House’s chief characteristic.
The challenges are characteristic not only for the euro area.
The site is a pine forest near an old highway, distinguished by the small, regular depressions in the earth that are characteristic of such graves.
The characteristic Continental economy is loosely organized along the corporatist lines that emerged during Europe's inter-war years (1919-1939).
On the other hand, the characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia are firmly in the domain of the mind.
Different health conditions impede development in characteristic ways.
These cartographers – whose only common characteristic is Internet access – are embracing the opportunity to depict the places that they know and love, whether to help their neighbors get around or to give faraway people a glimpse of their local environments.
The key challenge for New Labour (as Blair re-styled it with his characteristic gift for spin), was the management of the British economy.
The institutionally assured possibility of self-criticism is, arguably, the West’s best characteristic – its outstanding trait.
Even after a government in Germany is finally formed, policymakers there will continue to display their characteristic reluctance to use fiscal policy.
What unifies these ingredients is the key characteristic of predictability.
So the key characteristic of foreign policy integration is that governments cannot know in advance what they are letting themselves in for.
This is consistent with the EU’s key characteristic as the world’s first great "Civilian Power".
The key characteristic of the current revolution is not the speed of communications; instantaneous communication by telegraph dates back to the mid-nineteenth century.
(Intervening in contractual relations ex post to enforce union demands is an emerging characteristic of the administration).
But in my judgment, this is characteristic of far-from-equilibrium situations when perceptions tend to lag behind reality.
This national characteristic is not limited to individuals.
Both the 1914 and the 1933 analogies point to the most striking characteristic of the current debate: the key role of security worries in justifying protectionism.
Indeed, Putin’s signature characteristic is to be all men for all Russia’s people.
In her articles for one of the few remaining independent papers in Moscow, Novaya Gazeta, and in her books “Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy” and “A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya,” Politkovskaya wrote of the vanishing freedoms that are the signature characteristic of Putin’s presidency.
By the early 1950's, however, biologists still could not explain how an organism reproduces its characteristic form from one generation to another.
Still, if ever there was a moment for Britain to sprinkle some of its characteristic calm and resolve over world affairs, that moment is now.
Notice what the populist always does: he starts with a symbolic construction of the real people, whose supposedly single authentic will he deduces from that construction; then he claims, as Trump did at the Republican convention in July: “I am your voice” (and, with characteristic modesty: “I alone can fix it”).
But, when teams lose, these stereotypical virtues are damned with equal conviction as characteristic defects: German lack of imagination, Italian fear of attack, Dutch selfishness, the absence of national feeling among ethnic minorities in France, and so on.
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