Prestige brands will be able to far better characterise what it is that justifies increased prices in our minds.
We are all struggling for the right words to characterise what is happening," said Kate Saunders of the International Campaign for Tibet.
If you had to characterise what sets them apart, you could do worse than alight on their respective covers.
From the beginning, the government worked as hard as it could to characterise what Aaron did in the most extreme and absurd way.
LGBTI groups would never characterise what they do as "promoting" homosexuality themselves of course, but they are concerned that this is how the government could interpret it.
But rebellion seems to be the wrong way of characterising what appears to be a tentative groping after style and solutions.
And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then – I wasn't characterising what he did as 'a fling'," he added.
He uses similar words to describe getting through the show last Tuesday: "So much of what I love about him characterised what I loved about doing the show that night – it was simultaneously heavy and as light as air".
The resulting depressions characterise what is known as a karst landscape, in which hundreds or even thousands of relatively small sinkholes form across an area that, seen from the air, can appear almost pock-marked.
The resulting depressions characterise what is known as a karst landscape, in which hundreds or even thousands of relatively small sinkholes form across an area that, seen from the air, can appear almost pockmarked.
