The phrase "a key attribute that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an important characteristic or quality of a subject in a descriptive context.
Example: "One key attribute that distinguishes successful leaders is their ability to communicate effectively."
Alternatives: "an essential quality that" or "a crucial characteristic that".
Class cohesion is a key attribute that is used to assess the design quality of a class, and it refers to the extent to which the attributes and methods of the class are related.
We make the case that flexibility is a key attribute that needs to be embedded in the design of long-lived, complex systems to enable them to efficiently meet the inevitability of changing requirements after they have been fielded.
Even in the animal kingdom, the ability to search and reapply know-how is a key attribute that moves a species from survival to prosperity.
The antigenic load resulting from vaccination is highlighted as a key attribute that will affect T-cell quality and vaccine efficacy.
In fact, this automaticity is a key attribute that is deficient in DRs (Yap and van der Leij 1994; Brambati et al. 2006; Shaywitz and Shaywitz 2008).
Central to this dissociation from the primary tumour is altered or loss of E-cadherin expression (Davies et al, 2000; Lowy et al, 2002) a key attribute that may define the EMT.
The key attribute that makes a blog a blog and not some ordinary piece of web publishing is amateurism, says Mr Winer: if it is in any way edited, it is not a blog.
The availability of primary experimental data from a comprehensive study is the key attribute that distinguishes the PDDB from other neurodegenerative disease databases such as AlzGene (10) for Alzheimer's Disease, HDBase (11) for Huntington's Disease and PDGene (12) for Parkinson's Disease, which focus on meta analysis of published manuscripts and data sets to identify candidate disease genes.
Acting in a way that isn't considered stupid is a goal shared by most reasonable people, but many of them likely overlook one key attribute that might allow them to better achieve it: modesty.
"No one can deny the fact that if the cycle of terrorist attack followed by government curtailment of civil liberties continues, America will eventually lose the key attribute that has made it great, namely, freedom," Timothy Lynch, director of Cato's project on criminal justice, wrote in a position paper.
As VCs evaluating the space, we've come up with a few key attributes that help us identify the strongest players.
