Some characterized the links as uncertain.
Some characterized it as a painful and unwarranted intrusion into the privacy of those who had died and their survivors.
Some characterized the more extreme manifestations of the rivalry -- fistfights at the scenes of emergencies, for instance -- as the actions of "a few knuckleheads".
Some characterized the 1918 World Series as a reflection of the trench warfare in Europe, with runs yielded as grudgingly on the ball field as ground was on the battle field.
Some characterized the withdrawal as a positive development that would remove what they called the pretense that a viable peace effort was under way.
Some characterized YD repeat proteins function in competition between closely related bacterial strains (Waterfield et al., 2001; Kung et al., 2012; Koskiniemi et al., 2013).
"Dewey married money, LeBoeuf married up" was how some characterized the union.
Still, some characterized the offer as a bribe, which the club has rigorously disputed.
Among 1,111 other e-mail messages not destroyed and turned over under seal to Mr. Kelley, were some characterized in Mr. Rosenthal's filings as: jokes, "campaign related e-mail" and "messages between personal friends".
For Europeans, the agreement represented a sharp reversal from two weeks ago, when Germany and other countries played down the need for a concerted response to what some characterized as an American problem.
Spectacularly reversing its fortunes, Spain won the 2008 UEFA championship, the 2010 World Cup, and another UEFA championship in 2012 with a team that some characterized as the greatest national team in the sport's history.
