Federal regulations require all platinum bands to bear a stamp or "hallmark" on the inside of the band.
He and a small staff occupy the British Embassy, which still bears a few of the hallmarks of Britain's days as a empire: a hand-crafted dining room table and paintings of British kings and queens.
In contrast Allardyce would have been temporarily encouraged by the albeit fragile sense that Sunderland were, at long last, beginning to bear a few of the hallmarks traditionally associated with his teams.
MSF, which operates and supports a number of health centres and field hospitals in Syria, said the attack bore the hallmark of a double-tap strike, whereby the first bombing is followed by a second one after paramedics have arrived to help the victims.
They bore the hallmark of a well coached side - it was easy to see what they were trying to do, both at the start and as substitutions had to be made after conceding the first goal.
If Labour loses on 7 May, Miliband will not be able to use the excuse that he was prevented by dark forces from presenting a programme that bore his hallmark.
MEXICO CITY — Gunmen ambushed a peasant union leader and his family in northern Mexico, killing him and 14 others in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a hit by drug cartels but one that his organization said might have been related to his union work.
He died instantly when his car blew up and crashed into a shop-front, in what bore the hallmarks of a professional hit.
The February cleaver attack on Kevin Lau, who had recently been deposed as editor of a hard-hitting Hong Kong newspaper, bore the hallmarks of a triad operation, and several of those arrested in the case were said to have triad connections.
Mr. Needles added that the affection for stocks bore the hallmarks of a mature relationship more than a giggly teenage crush.
