Sentence examples for a defining attribute from inspiring English sources

Some dancers have a defining attribute: Sylvie Guillem's ear-high extensions, Alina Cojocaru's airy delicacy, Natalia Osipova's enormous jump.

Here we find yet again a defining attribute of the Obama legacy: the transformation of what was until recently a symbol of right-wing radicalism - warrantless eavesdropping - into meekly accepted bipartisan consensus.

This has been a defining attribute of the New Amsterdam Singers, a skilled 70-voice choir, which ended its 45th season with a concert on Thursday night at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church on the Upper West Side, conducted by its music director, Clara Longstreth.

He explains: "The contrast of social traditions was a shock; campus-based universities tend to be far more insular, whereas such a thing is absent from Heidelberg's university students, who treat their education like a job – it's just something you do, not a defining attribute.

A closer look shows that "72704001|Fracture (morphologic abnormality)|" is a defining attribute of "125605004|Fracture of bone (disorder)|" and is linked using the concept model attribute "116676008|Associated morphology (attribute)|".

Overall, however, the tandem arrangement of canonical 25-residue units is a hallmark of most ORFs displaying the motif, hence is a defining attribute of this set of repeat proteins.

In addition to smaller wheel size and a step-through frame, the third defining attribute of a scooter is an automatic transmission.

(Perhaps some difference between the attribute "being a horse" and the attribute "being either a horse or a kitten" explains why the former is the defining attribute of a kind and the latter is not.

If one works towards programs whose "thinking" is constitutionally incapable of violating predetermined constraints, one is trying to engineer away the defining attribute of an intelligent being, of a person: namely creativity.

And it may be that natural classes or kinds are themselves universals it may be that there is such a thing as "the horse" or the species Equus caballus, distinct from its defining attribute "being a horse" or "equinity", and in some sense "present in" each horse.

The inexorable reality is that no matter how opaque choices are, the defining attribute of a leader is his or her ability or obligation to choose.