Sentence examples for as a defining characteristic from inspiring English sources

Sex was seen as a defining characteristic of delinquent behaviour.

It is widely regarded as a defining characteristic of the modern state.

The humanist sees the inviolate life as a fundamental right and respect for it as a defining characteristic of a civilised society.

hygge: noun A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or wellbeing (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture).

It's common for Uighur intellectuals to emphasize race as a defining characteristic of their ethnic group, but in fact Uighur features vary widely: some, like Polat, are as dark as Middle Easterners; others are as fair as Caucasians.

Flavia Cacace, the dance partner who spent months training him on Strictly, even names its as a defining characteristic – "he's doesn't get too excited, he's always calm and in control, as if he's reserving his energy".

We've been taught to think of tragic figures as each having a defining characteristic that serves ultimately to undo him: Macbeth's ambition, Othello's jealousy and so on.

The skeleton had distinctive curvature of the spine, known as scoliosis, which was a defining characteristic of Richard III.

That asymmetry is known as parity violation and is a defining characteristic of the weak nuclear force, which causes such radioactive decay.

Pathological and imaging studies tend to over-simplify overdiagnosis, with an arbitrary cutoff of a defining characteristic such as volume doubling time.

The technique is classic propaganda, of the kind disseminated through the third world by the Communists during the cold war: seizing on what Americans see as a fault or tragic mistake, like racial segregation in the 1950's or the killing of innocent civilians in Vietnam, and recasting it as a malicious defining characteristic of an evil society.