A common characteristic of hypochondriascism and valetudinarianism is that both possess exaggerated fears about potential disability. |
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The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition. |
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Because feathers are a unique feature, they are thought to be characteristic of many theropod dinosaurs, including tyrannosaurs. |
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So that wrestling is characteristic of my religious or agnostic poetry, but not necessarily everything else I do. |
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At this time, chill treatment seedlings were severely wilted with extensive leaf rolling characteristic of water-stressed maize. |
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Tone in Luganda is of cardinal phonemic importance, which is probably a general characteristic of most present-day Bantu languages. |
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However, these songs all share the common unifying characteristic of lullabying children to sleep for generations past and generations to come. |
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Their skulls, while perhaps round-faced with high cheekbones, also have a low receding brow not characteristic of Native Americans. |
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Another physical characteristic of the brook trout is an adipose fin and a caudal fin that is slightly forked. |
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The latter situation is characteristic of shade-tolerant trees, where for a given diameter, the tapers are similar. |
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Michael saw it as characteristic of Miss Laudon's graciousness to repay her friend's loyalty in this way. |
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The side effect is inflammation and recruitment of these specific inflammatory and immune cells that are characteristic of the disease. |
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My latest academic post here is another one of my attacks on the woolly thinking that is so characteristic of academic psychology. |
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His mindset is characteristic of many smart young Americans, and matters a lot to the rest of us. |
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The reddishness of the unglazed portion of the dish is characteristic of early Ming porcelain. |
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The endemic wrybill has the unique characteristic of a bill bent to the right. |
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Remediation is a trademark characteristic of weblogs but it is hardly a new idea. |
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Another characteristic of those days is that salaries for lay workers and pastors were low. |
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All trials were conducted in the autumn of 1996, and summers and autumns of 1997 and 1998, during the dry season characteristic of the region. |
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We offer three possible avenues of research to improve this characteristic of our test for all students. |
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And this characteristic of Marxism is a universal truth, unaffected by culture. |
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The defining characteristic of a discriminatory auction is that successful buyers pay their bid price. |
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A scarped windward slope is the aspect most characteristic of coastal dunes. |
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Group participation is a peculiarly Chinese characteristic of the back-to-nature movement. |
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Historically, American demography fits into a three-stage progression characteristic of societies that now have low birth and death rates. |
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One characteristic of the Internet that has remained a constant for as long as I have been online is that there is never enough of it. |
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They show both Viennese classical charm and the inflection of English and Scottish folk-song characteristic of his many ballad operas. |
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However, seasonally flowing rivers with perennial waterholes are also characteristic of more humid parts of Australia. |
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Their unpredictable disposition-timid, yet also quick-tempered and dangerous-was sometimes characteristic of bear clan members. |
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The most unique characteristic of their property tax system is its constitutionality. |
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Rather, this finding would appear to indicate a lack of interrogatory concern, which may be characteristic of offenders. |
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It is this characteristic of the human mind which makes an appeal to force necessary. |
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A circular tower with a domed skylight exemplifies the surprising styling characteristic of contemporary design. |
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The light-yellow, spindle-shaped spots on the leaves are characteristic of this soil-borne virus. |
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This is characteristic of most Western European music and some music from other cultures. |
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It seems appropriate in this connection to analyze selectivity as a characteristic of weapon systems. |
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My wife, who learned to speak Batak in the village, acquired the manner of shouting and the gestures characteristic of village women. |
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The relationships of species A and D haplotypes form a starburst pattern that is highly characteristic of a population expansion. |
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The name Colobus is derived from the German language to mean thumbless, which is a characteristic of Colobus monkeys. |
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Thirty years ago Aron worried about a kind of hedonistic self-indulgence characteristic of decadent societies. |
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Gobies are distinguished from sculpins of similar appearance by their fused pelvic fin, which is characteristic of the family Gobiidae. |
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A characteristic of recent expansionist arguments in the field of copyright has been to minimize or trivialize the public domain. |
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Frequent warnings against the redistributive nature of government were characteristic of his tenure. |
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The common characteristic of the matadors in this group is that they interpret bullfighting in an unorthodox manner. |
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All 10 patients had frontal-temporal theta wave activity, which indicated diffuse changes characteristic of metabolic encephalopathy. |
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The unique characteristic of this charcoal is that it can heat up to a very high temperature, which helps sear the meat and lock in its juice. |
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Of course, as the honourable member will know, alienability is a defining characteristic of a fee simple title. |
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High stomatal frequencies are usually characteristic of leaves of xerophytes. |
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One remarkable characteristic of this work is that the author does not reduce his subjects to ludicrous caricatures. |
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She is blessed with the cool, crystalline tone so characteristic of Scandinavian singers. |
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But the most notable characteristic of the piano is that it is eminently suitable for the tone-deaf. |
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Civil and religious liberty, so characteristic of America, are most appropriately represented by the two lamblike horns of this creature. |
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Examination of the surgical specimen revealed findings characteristic of mesoblastic nephroma. |
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They both were beefy and middle aged with the sort of forgettable, flabby face so characteristic of law enforcement. |
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The ability of plants to recover after relief from stress is also an important characteristic of tolerant plants. |
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The climate and soil in the region are characteristic of a tropical rainforest. |
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It is not homologous with the bilaterality of body plans characteristic of anthozoan groups. |
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In objectifying his memories, Jim abandons what we might call his realism for a mode of representation more characteristic of modernism. |
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Supposedly, roads laid with a mixture of recycled plastic and bitumen were more durable because of the water-resistant characteristic of plastic. |
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It was characteristic of Bill to remember my key point in a paper I gave there on my fieldwork among the Ojibwa. |
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Despondency and political apathy are not characteristic of people in the grip of nationalist zeal. |
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The spines grow from an areole covered with glochids, which are tiny, barbed spines characteristic of all Opuntia. |
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The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America. |
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Even the heavy accent on chrome plating which is so characteristic of genuine choppers is absent in the Indian versions. |
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That's his euphemism for the paunch so characteristic of many middle-aged, desk-bound executives. |
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Little is known of his life, but it was clearly troubled, and a sense of melancholy and desolation is characteristic of all his work. |
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The most evident characteristic of the stinkpot turtle is the presents of barbells on both the chin and throat. |
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Modulation is the process of varying some characteristic of the electric carrier wave as transmitted information on that carrier wave fluctuates. |
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The ability to create brilliant work over a long period of time is the signal characteristic of Bob Dylan's genius. |
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The presence of high levels of nucleotide diversity, however, is only one characteristic of the signature of a balanced polymorphism. |
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In general, the prominent characteristic of Stoic philosophy is moral heroism, often verging on asceticism. |
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This curved lip at the sidewall ends is a characteristic of all headrails formed by the extrusion process from raw aluminum. |
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Perhaps the outstanding characteristic of Aficionado is its almost massive minutiae about everything tauromachian. |
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It is very characteristic of the Hellenistic period, but shows evidence of an Augustan remodelling. |
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A major distinguishing characteristic of advisory bodies is their independence. |
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They are characteristic of the granitic uplands or moors of south-western England and of other Hercynian massifs in western and central Europe. |
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One of the first casualties of the illiberal centralization of power characteristic of democracy has been the loss of local autonomy. |
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In fact, specially outfitted growth chambers are typically required to attain UV-B levels characteristic of open, natural environments. |
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The most striking characteristic of this political approach is the author's patent partiality and clear adherence to high Tory principles. |
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Displays of unencumbered emotion have been a regular characteristic of pop concert audiences ever since Elvis scuffed his Blue Suede Shoes. |
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However peculiarity is a characteristic of all things Royal, not to say outright barminess. |
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This kind of sloppiness is, unfortunately, characteristic of the entire book. |
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Multiple streams of data are characteristic of applications which execute multiple threads and processes in parallel. |
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This helped them build up the climaxes of phrasing, so characteristic of the Romantic style, and to gradate more smoothly to the final part. |
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An increase in tensile and yield strength at low temperature is characteristic of metals and alloys in general. |
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Values such as solidarity, thrift, cleanliness and self-discipline were regularly identified as characteristic of them. |
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The impatience and irritation that was such a marked characteristic of New York is gone, replaced by a rare generosity and calm. |
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A definite characteristic of hemp-nettles is that the stem is swollen below each node. |
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The top and the decorative strip are characteristic of Chinese bells and commonly found on Choson bells. |
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He also had large incisor teeth and the typical overbite characteristic of other kings from his family. |
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From my experience, what is very characteristic of what we see here in Thailand is the failed attempt to win a real trophy. |
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Sociability is a distinguishing characteristic of the islands and often is commented on by visitors. |
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His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings. |
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He rarely engages in the hyperbole or overembellishment so characteristic of many sportswriters. |
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There is also a large number of highly varied indigenous flora species that are characteristic of low-altitude tropical forests. |
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No conserved DNA motifs characteristic of the promoters of florally expressed genes were identified. |
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This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm. |
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The lesions of demyelination are histopathologically characteristic of the disease. |
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Another characteristic of muscles subjected to high force regimes is the presence of sesamoids or calcified central tendons. |
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A defining visual characteristic of methemoglobinemia is chocolate-brown arterial blood. |
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Another characteristic of the reportage is the delight in grotesque and vulgar pornographic images. |
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It is characteristic of totalitarian regimes to try to prevent private initiatives in education. |
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The massive, fortified churches in Estonia are characteristic of the Roman style, in spite of their sharply arched portals and arches. |
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The sculptural solidity of the forms and the sharply creased and complex drapery folds are characteristic of the youthful Bronzino. |
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An opposable thumb is generally seen as a defining characteristic of primates, but in spider monkeys it is greatly reduced or entirely absent. |
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The F, or femininity, scale measures socially desirable personality traits perceived to be stereotypically characteristic of women. |
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The most notable characteristic of Archimedes' mathematical work is its freedom from the trammels of traditional Greek mathematics. |
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The apes nest on the ground like gorillas but have a diet and features characteristic of chimpanzees. |
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Such minute attention to textual detail is characteristic of the entire work. |
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The main characteristic of my work is the contrast between chanciness and design. |
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As well, the porous nature of the exudate allows for the wound to breathe, a desirable characteristic of a bioadhesive. |
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Whatley described a similar age structure as characteristic of low-energy biocoenosis, considered extremely rare in marine shelf environments. |
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One characteristic of kata is that they have a kind of immanent energy within them, capable of making manifest that which is latent. |
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It was characteristic of his perversity that he left his name upon nothing that he made, with one exception. |
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The defining characteristic of the British Empire was competition, both military and economic, with rival imperial powers. |
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According to the eminent modern philosopher Karl Popper, the defining characteristic of science is that its assertions are falsifiable. |
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By far and away the most wondrous aspect of PVA is its characteristic of turning to hard solid plastic once dry. |
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The most distinctive characteristic of the Turkish Van is the breed's unique marking pattern. |
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It has been characteristic of the French tradition of moralists that they are observers, reporting elegantly on the perennial human condition. |
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And, to that degree, Soviet anti-Semitism partook of the essential characteristic of all anti-Semitism. |
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This is a characteristic of much of Elgar's symphonic writing, though without the terse compactness of the Brahms model. |
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He generalised Monge's idea of the characteristic of a partial differential equation from 2nd order equations to nth order equations. |
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The central characteristic of the society we live in is that it is divided by class. |
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The most fundamental characteristic of tholeiites is the presence of a low-Ca pyroxene. |
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Sanderlings are characteristic of sandy beaches, running back and forth, with the ebb and flow of the tide, like so many little clockwork toys. |
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A high bank angle is characteristic of penguins and sea lions which also lack a dorsal fin and turn using elongate pectoral flippers. |
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The other songs are characteristic of the band, maintaining musicality, but always experimental. |
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It is unexceptionable to note that an obsession with violence has always been characteristic of American movies. |
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The muscle of the pylorus does, however, show the high degree of myogenic tone characteristic of other sphincters. |
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The most striking characteristic of this debate about morality and politics is its naivety. |
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I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. |
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Her desire to get her father's attention with lipstick is characteristic of the Electra complex she has for him. |
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The fish shows other features characteristic of land animals, including ribs, a neck, and nostrils on its snout for breathing air. |
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Although the chair frame was made in Newport, the needlework is characteristic of embroideries identified with Boston teachers. |
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This signal at extended wavelengths outside of absorbance bands is characteristic of the dispersive part of differential light scattering. |
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The final nifty characteristic of blogs that I discussed was the personal nature of the writing. |
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Boris' editorial was marked out by the brouhaha, twisted facts and exaggeration characteristic of British Conservatives in debate. |
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Such dualism, which in effect consigns the Other to perdition, is in modernity often a characteristic of fundamentalisms. |
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The progression of the story is somewhat episodic, as is characteristic of many of Dickens' tales. |
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These systems identify and verify a unique physical characteristic of a person, such as a fingerprint, voiceprint or retina. |
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Another characteristic of this view of music education is an emphasis on testing and examining. |
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Such detail is characteristic of the fascinating examples and cases explored in this book. |
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The learned doctors of the Great Vehicle teach us that the essential characteristic of the universe is its emptiness. |
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Both features are characteristic of calc-alkaline magmas erupted in subduction-related volcanic arc environments. |
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It is a key component of the notions of comradeship and esprit de corps which are characteristic of military self-image and organization. |
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There is none of the deliberate obfuscation characteristic of so much architectural theory. |
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Nonsense statements such as these are known as amphigory and are characteristic of much occult metaphysics. |
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A characteristic of a polar bond is that one of the atoms is more negative than the other. |
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The extent and prominence of the carinae, the carina on the central node, reticulation, and posterior node are characteristic of the species. |
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This fully expresses one characteristic of the stream, which, in former times, fetched many serpentine sweeps in its passage through the carses. |
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The stratal geometries that are characteristic of the unconformity depend strongly on structural and geographical position within the basin. |
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All tissues were examined for the presence of viral inclusions characteristic of cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus. |
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It is characteristic of subcultural style that it should resist the interpretations of outsiders. |
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The unique physical characteristic of hognose snakes is their nose, which is turned up like a pig's snout. |
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The higher negative charge is a property that seems to be characteristic of mitochondria in many cancer cells. |
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Another characteristic of space missions is that robots have to operate far away from their home base. |
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The defining characteristic of our age is not a shift of power upward, to supranational institutions, but downward. |
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There are no string stops on the swell organ while the pedal department shows the lack of upper work so characteristic of this period. |
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A characteristic of the family Gobiidae is the absence of a swim bladder, which is used for buoyancy control. |
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The resulting hummock and hollow microtopography of the forest floor is characteristic of mixed conifer and cedar swamps in New York state. |
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However, the statue has been there for many years and over time has developed a patina which is characteristic of bronze. |
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This union of chemistry with medicine was one characteristic of the iatrochemical school of which he was the precursor. |
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I don't believe clubbiness is a characteristic of the university, although some respondents felt that was an issue in their area. |
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The patterns of exchange characteristic of chats are phatic, and their primary purpose is to get and maintain a social link. |
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Another structural characteristic of the picaresque novel is the education of the young rogue, which frequently coincides with his servitude. |
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It is characteristic of thoughtful people that they don't understand some things that to others are as plain as a pikestaff. |
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It is surely possible to imagine a culture, for instance, in which race would be an unimportant, insignificant characteristic of individuals. |
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Moving glaciers, deep fjords, and large lakes are characteristic of South Island. |
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Castorocauda has the ankle spurs characteristic of its nearest living relative, the platypus, which uses them for territorial defense. |
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The phenotype was converted back to that characteristic of a wild-type strain, showing that the injected DNA contained the normal gene. |
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Note that the outer involucral bracts on the bud are at right angles, a characteristic of southern dandelions. |
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This is characteristic of a system totally lacking in any real involvement of ordinary people. |
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A trial of a corticosteroid given in a low dosage may be helpful, because rapid relief of symptoms is characteristic of polymyalgia rheumatica. |
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But even in the youthful verses there is a technical fluency and a consistency of tone which is to be a permanent characteristic of all his work. |
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The embryo is human, since it has the genetic constitution and epigenetic primordia characteristic of human beings. |
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Distally expanded or paddle shaped geometries characteristic of rowing appendages are found in crustaceans, insects, teleosts, and tetrapods. |
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An essential characteristic of a profession is the need for its members to abide by a code of ethics. |
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His remarkable piano recitals and penchant for drawing detailed pictures are characteristic of someone with the condition. |
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Whether the retainment of exuviae is characteristic of the species is open to question. |
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It is characteristic of him that his decision to study natural science and medicine was determined not so much by his reading as by his dreams. |
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The patient in this case has Lyme disease, and the annular rash depicted is erythema chronicum migrans, characteristic of this disorder. |
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The larger paintings are staged in a manner characteristic of Manet's early studio compositions. |
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If so, this peculiar morphologic feature is another distinguishing characteristic of this genus. |
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The central characteristic of the genre is accuracy in conveying information about cities and ancient buildings. |
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Compactability is a measure of how easily the concrete is compacted and is the most-abused characteristic of vertical concrete's rheology. |
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Another odd characteristic of beavers is that their epiglottis lies above the soft palate, within the narial passage. |
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Sequential monoarthritis in several joints is characteristic of gonococcal arthritis or rheumatic fever. |
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A major strand is that all the great philosophical issues are seen in terms of modernity, a defining characteristic of which is the quest for self-fulfilment. |
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Breaking down rigid social hierarchy so characteristic of the Middle Ages, these riotous tales poke fun at everyone. |
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Kilkenny noticed the disappointment anyway, despite the scrambler's odd characteristic of rendering voices emotionless during the scrambling and unscrambling process. |
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We conclude that potentiation of gill contraction is not a general characteristic of bivalves and that the uneven distribution is not phylogenetically based. |
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The defining characteristic of this highly profitable format is unrehearsed, unscripted moments of real life played out before, and captured by, a video camera. |
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The main casualties are tree species characteristic of old-growth forests. |
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The fruit has a smooth, yellowish skin without the knobs or reticulations which are characteristic of its tropical relatives such as the cherimoya, sugar-apple, and sour sop. |
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All this becomes part of the corporate experience, a healthy look in the midst of sick building syndrome that is characteristic of many office buildings in Egypt. |
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Some of the most attractively preserved fossils are the yellow and brown calcitic moulds of ammonites that are characteristic of calcareous concretions. |
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The light coming from rectangular panels set along the ceiling and walls was bright and even, with none of the flickering or smoking so characteristic of oil or wood. |
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As mentioned earlier, IgM antibodies to various neural antigens have been associated with neurophysiological and pathological changes characteristic of various neuropathies. |
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And unlike his two compatriots, Mehrjui's work is mostly devoid of the artful interplay between life and art that is so characteristic of their work. |
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The Specimens below are polished to a high luster on one side to allow viewing of the beautiful crystalline structure characteristic of this rare primitive achondrite! |
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This insect has pale gray forewings with many cross-lines and bands of color in a pattern characteristic of many of the Larentiinae or so-called carpet moths. |
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One characteristic of pidgins is the lack of inflectional morphology. |
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Such a blend has been a characteristic of many popular European cars. |
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Flesh and blood are customarily characteristic of organic life forms. |
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Compelling evidence now suggests that inflammation can trigger a cascade of responses that culminate in tissue destruction that is characteristic of this disease. |
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But not half as scary as the international financial panics which this book believes to be the defining characteristic of modern global capitalism. |
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Younger women use the monophthongs characteristic of male speech. |
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Onset is typically during middle age, which is characteristic of the long incubation periods most prion diseases show. |
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Morning stiffness and a history of swelling suggest an inflammatory process but also are characteristic of fibromyalgia, a noninflammatory condition. |
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Such a gesture might look to contemporary historians like an act of archival vandalism, but it was entirely characteristic of the old school to which Macmillan belonged. |
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Such flexibility is, however, not characteristic of the EU countries. |
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A major characteristic of barrens is the presence of many herbaceous species typical of tallgrass prairie and ecotonal habitats intermediate between prairie and forest. |
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A distinguishing characteristic of female voters is their caution. |
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Elizabethan and even 18th century authors, who represent vulgarisms so frequently, do not seem to use omissions and misplacings of h's as a characteristic of low class speech. |
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He recognized and valued the curiosity and imagination that are characteristic of young children, and wanted to find outlets for their creative energy. |
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Her shoulders, her bosom do not have that scrawniness characteristic of female dancers whose whole weight seems to have descended into their legs. |
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Squat and few in number to begin with, by the thirteenth century gargoyles became more numerous and had developed the projecting form characteristic of gothic cathedrals. |
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Despite suffering what must have been a hurtful rebuff for a young academic, she spoke of him in very respectful terms, characteristic of her usual grace. |
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The exuberance of the carving, attributed to Rhodian sculptors, and the dramatic, illusionistic setting are characteristic of the Hellenistic baroque. |
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It had a nicely drawn design of fan-tailed animals marching in opposing directions, row by row, and was done in the silky wool characteristic of good Baluch work. |
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Whenever a given system had a deficiency such as, for example, slightly limited expandability, another characteristic of the system offset that lower grade. |
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One can speak of a general hesitation before universalizing discourses as characteristic of the late-modern anxiety about narratives and systems of value. |
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As Bateson pointed out long ago in his work on the double-bind theory, the first characteristic of a double bind is that the person caught up in it cannot escape. |
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Most of them have flowers of the eyewatering pinkish-scarlet which is characteristic of the species, with just a few in shades of brilliant coral for maximum clash. |
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Not that mercy was a defining characteristic of Bush's six years in the Texas state house, when he put more prisoners to death than any other governor in modern US history. |
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Both species exhibit low proportions of polyunsaturated fatty acids and high proportions of oleic and stearic acids characteristic of carnivorous and insectivorous species. |
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Another characteristic of channel catfish is the ability to hear sounds. |
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A steatite figurine from the Amq plain,belonging to the early part of the Neolithic period, shows a seated woman of the steatopygous type so characteristic of the Stone Age. |
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Both women have the chalky flesh-tones, the lank pelt of body-hair, and the deep folds of embonpoint characteristic of Baldung's unenticing nudes. |
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The combination of expressive painterliness and deft realism characteristic of Sargent's painting was admired internationally and imitated by many lesser artists. |
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Cowbird nestlings were placed into nests prior to the hatching of host nestlings to simulate the shorter incubation periods characteristic of parasitic species. |
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This is characteristic of the typewriter, a mechanical device. |
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The topography immediately changes from the high mountains composed of purple and green shales into low monticles characteristic of the coal field. |
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One key characteristic of red herrings, apart from their colour, was their strong smell, so much so that one use for them on occasion was to train hounds to follow a scent. |
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I round off the chapter by considering the case of so-called numeral-classifier languages, which typically lack the morphosyntactic distinctions characteristic of English. |
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Another characteristic of most metals is that they liberate hydrogen gas when they are reacted with dilute hydrochloric acid or dilute sulfuric acid. |
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Above, the king, protected by Isis, makes the offering of his anaglyph to Khonsu, who now wears the feathers that are more characteristic of Montu. |
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It is a distinguishing characteristic of the breed that religious fanatics have a particularly lurid sexual imagination. |
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The negative attitude towards chatting is generally characteristic of older informants while teen informants were generally more open to chatting. |
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The ever undisguised craftiness and knavishness of the imperialists is characteristic of their aggressive foreign policy after the end of the cold war. |
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This game of guile has the womanly characteristic of dangerous beauty. |
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Thus animals able to develop in shallow bodies of water are to some extent buffered against the lower air temperature characteristic of high latitudes. |
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None of the CF patients' undecalcified biopsy specimens in the present study demonstrated the osteoid parameters characteristic of vitamin D deficiency osteomalacia. |
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Another characteristic of pidgins is lexical impoverishment. |
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The typical characteristic of these people is their natural, upright gait and it is widely documented that back and joint pain is unknown to the Masai. |
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One key characteristic of youthful-looking skin is radiance. |
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The cast deals admirably with a difficult script which is peppered with acerbic one-liners and wonderfully witty wisecracks, characteristic of Marber's earlier comedy. |
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The main characteristic of all intermittent flight modes is periodic variation in thrust generated by the flapping wings, and therefore in the dynamics of the body. |
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It is a characteristic of charmers that when they suspect they may have caused offence, they calculate that a sufficiently charming apology should get them off the hook. |
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Halteres are the tiny club-shaped hindwings characteristic of all flies. |
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A shortening of the limbs is characteristic of other conditions such as diastrophic dysplasia, multiple epiphyseal dysplasia and pseudoachondroplasia. |
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The slow, melancholic songs are a distinctive characteristic of her music. |
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The way Parks and Brechneff fall in love with their adoptive homes is profoundly characteristic of expatriation altogether. |
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Although sinistral individuals are known in many normally dextral species, left-handedness as a characteristic of species is rare in most gastropod clades. |
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The template provided by the known homologous structure will lead to a potential energy well that is close to that characteristic of the global energy minimum of the protein of interest. |
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The fundamental characteristic of software radio is that software defines the transmitted waveforms, and software demodulates the received waveforms. |
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The goal forced Univ to reassess the task in hand and they did so well, immediately playing the kind of hockey which had been characteristic of their campaign thus far. |
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A characteristic of a quality tie is one that has been cut across the fabric so that it allows the tie to fall straightforward after the knot has been tied. |
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As is characteristic of Johns's graphic work of this time, the drawings feature freehand scribbles, carefully limned curves, erasures and tonal blurring. |
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Here, one of the birds spreads its wings to let its plumage dry in the sun, an attitude which is highly characteristic of cormorants and their relatives. |
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While not depicted here, it is suggested that the inhibitory input to these DA pathways produces the overt and covert restlessness characteristic of akathisia. |
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It had pectoral and dorsal fins with fin-rays characteristic of fish. |
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Tall neural spines are also a characteristic of early synapsids. |
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The unique characteristic of these fascinating plants is their flowers, whose odour is not likely to cause amour unless the recipients of the odours are blowflies. |
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This characteristic of the proposed scheme could make it suitable for less tectonically stable parts of the world provided enclaves of suitably thick crust are available. |
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The building has a significant presence at the entrance to the campus and evokes the sense of order and balance characteristic of classical architecture. |
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Scientists are predicting the demise of the ginger barnet, for so long a characteristic of Scots from Rob Roy to Robin Cook, because of racial mixing. |
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The tree can be an important characteristic of passive solar heating, providing early afternoon summer shade, and little effect in winter with the leaves off. |
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The patriotism characteristic of Americans is visible everywhere. |
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Patterns characteristic of one, two or multiple dipping layers of anisotropic rock may be revealed when these parameters are plotted as a function of arrival azimuth. |
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Poets turned to the syllabic meters of folk poetry, and the old Osmanli literary style gave way to the more direct language characteristic of most Western poetry. |
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The inscriptions are replete with complimentary titles and laudatory sentiments and are finely enameled in the purplish gray background characteristic of wares made for him. |
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The six civilized core areas of the ecumene interacted but were not moving toward uniformity as was characteristic of the first phase of world history. |
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They are especially characteristic of many temperate trees where plication occurs between secondary veins before formation of tertiary veins in the bud. |
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The wide temperature swings characteristic of the leatherwood flowering period in the Upper Peninsula is probably among the most severe within its range. |
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As is characteristic of monocots, all of the flower parts appear in multiples of three. |
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In sharp contrast, relative incompressibility is a characteristic of the liquid state. |
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An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions. |
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Trumpets, cornets, and other reeds en chamade, characteristic of Spanish organs after ca. |
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A higher P-T crystallization regime is characteristic of monzonitic rocks of the Aland batholith. |
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The high degree of urbanization characteristic of Dutch society was attained at a relatively early date. |
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The building lacks the benches characteristic of Mithraea, and nothing of clearly Mithraic character has been found at Uruk. |
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A particular characteristic of speech-act conditionals is that they permit apodoses with nondeclarative sentence structure. |
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Bacterial parasitization of peripheral nerves is a unique feature that is characteristic of leprosy. |
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This condition is characteristic of Cleroidea but also occurs in the cucujoid families Biphyllidae and Byturidae. |
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She said the defining characteristic of her husband was his sensitivity. |
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Buckwheat and cockshead honeys are characteristic of southern and south-western Lithuania. |
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Huge burial cairns built close to the sea as far north as Harstad and also inland in the south are characteristic of this period. |
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A single voice part in alto clef, it possesses a bouncy tunefulness more characteristic of Latin music from Italy. |
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Vibration in this frequency range is characteristic of nauseogenic vehicles. |
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A striking behavioural characteristic of most ladybeetles is the formation of overwintering groups. |
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The defining characteristic of moral manualism, as Keenan describes it, is its reliance on rules for moral behavior. |
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In his Peaceable Kingdom, Hauerwas identifies peaceableness as the cardinal characteristic of the church's narrative. |
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This type of vocal treatment is still a key characteristic of the UK garage style. |
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A characteristic of Anglicanism is that it has no international juridical authority. |
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This intention is a deliberate and integral characteristic of the social contract, a characteristic that persists to the present day. |
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These are traditionally believed to be a characteristic of the deity Brahma and the heavenly abode he resides in. |
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Throughout this range of infinitival relatives, we can identify one common characteristic of the grammatical cases. |
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Of course, eyes are characteristic of the vertebrates in the deuterostome group. |
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It has been reported4 that Natrium Muriaticum 1M sprayed into a vacuum produced spectrum characteristic of sodium. |
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