Sentence examples for characterising from inspiring English sources

(Cognoscenti will recognise that the crucial point is that Meinongian ontological arguments fail to respect the distinction between nuclear (assumptible, characterising) properties and non-nuclear (non-assumptible, non-characterising) properties.

"Characterising the refusal of most African countries to commercialise GM crops … as 'fear of the unknown' is patronising and shallow.

Almost a decade and a half after making the remarks, which were seen as characterising the Labour government's embrace of free markets and the City, Mandelson said he was "much more concerned" about inequality than when he made first made his comments to a US industrialist in California in 1998.

The old ways of characterising it, by the anatomical site of its debut (kidney, for example, or prostate gland) and the histology of its cells, seem increasingly out of date.

It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this".He suggests to Nixon that the American government ought to stop characterising people as "white" and "non-white".

The civilian government will once again have to pick up the pieces and absorb the criticism for its "capitulation", as the opposition and the mullahs are characterising it.An American apology had been offered quietly, back in February, but it did not suit the Pakistani side to take it then.

However, you are sadly mistaken in characterising a move to large personal-retirement accounts as a pending "fiscal catastrophe".

He even managed to dodge the draft during the civil war by paying $150 to a Polish immigrant to act as his substitute.CHARLES BURNS San FranciscoBureaucratic confusion* I enjoyed the most recent Charlemagne column ("Less is more", February 14th) characterising Frans Timmerman's challenging new role at the European Commission.

Characterising an entire religion in this way is considered entirely beyond the pale in educated American society; while some small right-wing or evangelical Christian organisations demonise Islam as an enemy, mainstream conservatives, and for that matter neoconservatives, characterise only radical Islam as a threat.

But Mr Will's column discourages reasoned conversation not only by characterising a proposal to alter the status quo conventions about corporate rights as "proposed vandalism of the Bill of Rights"—that is, as the defilement of our sacred civic text but also by very shadily associating the proposal with the idea that it's morally okay to slay newly-baked babies.

Democrats learned several elections ago how to avoid characterising their view of the constitution in that framework, and none of their high-level nominees have lost out by falling into that trap.