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Usage examples of characteristic.

More than a month would pass before Adams felt reasonably well again, and some symptoms of the fever would drag on, or recur long afterward, another characteristic of malaria.

Since the 1950s, the mallness of malls has involved a different set of characteristics: a shared parking lot, common ownership and management, uniform and aesthetically pleasing design, clear and consistent marketing goals, a carefully controlled commercial environment, a tenant mix designed to provide variety, and a wide range of consumer goods.

But the characteristic writers of the time, people like Auden and Spender and MacNeice, have been didactic, political writers, aesthetically conscious, of course, but more interested in subject-matter than in technique.

Ouemessourit, probably a corruption of their name by the Illinois tribe, with the characteristic Algonquian prefix.

Avolaand those from North Africa, Sardinia, and southern Francecontain a small percentage of bitter almonds, which give marzipan and almond milk their characteristic bitter fragrance and taste.

Just as economic and political Americanism has been broad enough and vital enough to make a place in the American social economy for the hordes of European immigrants with their many diverse national characteristics, so the intellectual basis of Americanism must be broad enough to include and vigorous enough to assimilate the special ideals and means of discipline necessary to every kind of intellectual or moral excellence.

The distinguishing characteristic of all ammonites was the complex suture pattern formed by the meeting of the growth chamber walls with the outside shell.

There was a time when he could recognise the characteristics of pianists like Richter, Serkin, Arrau and Michelangeli.

He shared it with one of the Mouths of the Bedu nomads, an enigmatic and apparently sexless creature covered from head to toe in one of their characteristic, belted blue robes and over-vest, dyed with indigo.

By the fifth year many bees might have some but not all of the characteristics of the new bee.

Crime scene characteristics are those elements of physical evidence found at the crime scene that may reveal behavioral traits of the murderer.

By choosing to pose his victim, he revealed a distinct behavioral characteristic relating to his fantasies and premeditation of the crime.

They felt a reward was in order because Warren had shown constructive behavior patterns and was showing a marked change in his attitude and behavioral characteristics.

Case in Point Criminal profiling uses the behavioral characteristics of the offender as its basis.

Further, behavioral research efforts by law enforcement agencies is important to their development of additional skill in reading the seemingly inert characteristics of crime scene evidence.