As Charles Darwin observed in The Descent of Man, "it may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant".
What is distinctive of a prima facie obligation, as opposed to a mere instrumental means-end imperative, is that it cannot be overridden by mere desires.
In responding to you with fear or anger, I am implicitly evaluating you in a particular way, and this evaluation called the formal object is the kind of evaluation of the target that is distinctive of a particular emotion type.
We show how these cells can differentiate toward a germ line different from the original one, modifying their morphology and acquiring metabolic changes which are distinctive of a more normal phenotype.
The Th1 type signature was restricted to a subset of B class metastases while Th17 type signatures were distinctive of the A group.
Your voice also needs to be distinctive that conveys a sense of character.
These somatic cell layers are distinctive cytologically, and each consists of a single layer of cells.
It has an arched barrel ceiling, the original stools and countertop, and wrap-around windows, he said, which are all distinctive of a railway-car style diner.
Others are more distinctive of a "state", e.g. distribution of cytokeratins and down-regulation of certain integrins (ITGA6/ITGB4, ITGA7) in all the tumour-derived cell lines.
But what would be the distinctive features of a Scottish welfare state?
