He enumerates as strengths the prime minister's combination of great self-confidence with extreme caution, as well as his instinctive feel for the popular mood: an ability, as Mr Rentoul characterises it, to "reflect back the banality of the majority .Both of these strengths might equally well be interpreted as weaknesses.
With the protein/soil interactions well characterised, it is possible to construct model systems whereby the stability of both Metal bound and apo forms of PrPc and PrPsc can be studied.
Because the transporter is not fully characterised, it is open to speculation why these motifs do not allow the active transport of these compounds.
Although numerous plant amino acid and peptide transporters have been identified and some of them functionally characterised, it is difficult to determine which are the most important for plant N recycling on both the source and the sink side.
Some, though, have characterised it as a gift to corrupt officials and criminals: it blocks the tax authorities from asking where the money comes from.
Over the years, much of the kitsch that characterised it when new seems to have been quietly abandoned, although traces remain: the landscape, covered with what looks like pink bubble bath, that replaces the backdrop of Nagasaki when Butterfly makes her first appearance; and the tacky flapping gestures she makes as she dies.
Though ALR has been characterised, it has been difficult to show the specific consequences that disrupting the process has on cell survival.
It's certainly possible that the assassination of Mr Jabari was, as Roger Cohen characterised it, a choice by Binyamin Netanyahu to escalate the conflict and go for a clearer military victory.
Since then, the nature of the HIV/AIDS crisis has become more widely recognised -- and a number of heads of State or Government have declared that HIV/AIDS is a national emergency or disaster -- while other high-ranking leaders have characterised it as an outright threat to peace and security.
To characterise it as such now and to refer to it on several occasions... seems to me to be very misleading".
