"At that point," the Tory source said, "Labour were very good at capturing the unionist vote, and we couldn't be characterised as the party that wanted to put the union in danger – it would have angered our people.
More recently, an influx of Slovakian Romas has seen the area characterised as a boiling pot, ripe for Oldham-style riots.
Serial monogamy characterised my early romantic life, as it does for many people.
The Queen will find many of the notions that characterised the old Corinthian spirit – character, community, playing for the sake of it – alive and well and living in Croke Park.
While Australian colonial frontier exploration and settlement is predominantly characterised with extreme violence, this exhibition – Fragile First Impressions – tells of a more (but not exclusively) peaceful engagement between the Bininj and white people beginning in the mid-19th century.
On the other, they are being encouraged to do so in a space characterised by profound risk, in both an acute sense (bad roads, bad driving) and a chronic one (bad air).
Anyone who was interested in 'the arts' who grew up in the predominantly working-class north-east of the Seventies and Eighties couldn't help but be aware of a huge, and seemingly unbridgeable, divide between what was characterised as High and Low Art.
Swedish defence policy has long been characterised by double-think and this is the way the public wants it.
The year opened as it ends, with a Brussels summit characterised by misunderstanding and fundamental differences over what to do.
What has characterised recent history is the drift from parliamentary to executive government, a move from open to closed government.
These groups are characterised by economic nativism, anti-immigration and protectionist leanings, religious fanaticism, and geopolitical isolationism.
