Sentence examples for characteristic move from inspiring English sources

(Ross Douthat, for example, saw a "characteristic move of the papacy" of which he famously disapproves).

After meeting with Republican senators, he made a characteristic move — suddenly ordering twelve hundred National Guard troops to the southern border.

In a characteristic move, he also decides to include two small plates and a serving spoon, in addition to the two dessertspoons, in case the guests choose to divvy up the pastries on separate dishes.

(Ross Douthat, for example, saw a "characteristic move of the papacy" of which he famously disapproves). Traditionalists have become increasingly peeved with Francis since last November, when he released the encyclical "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), which seemed to provide an opening for divorced and remarried Catholics to be readmitted to the sacraments.

In a characteristic move, Ayer now contended that sense-data should be understood not as part of the furniture of the world but as conceptual constructs, or logical fictions, that allow one to distinguish between sensory experience and matter and between appearance and reality.

He eagerly shifts from one policy to another and leaves us wondering if the PNG plan is a surprise or a characteristic move.

Or if, refusing recent claims that it is now exhausted, we remain committed to critique, how can we practice it anew in the face of adversaries who appear fluent in some of its characteristic moves?

The theory claims that presentness is a characteristic moving along the order of events: "Along [the order of events], and in a fixed direction, the characteristic of presentness [is] moving, somewhat like the spot of light from a policeman's bull's-eye traversing the fronts of the houses in a street.

Bivariable descriptive analyses were performed for driver characteristics, moving violations and crash characteristics stratified by drug/drug categories.

In this way, several different O/D trip matrices are done in order to represent the number of users with similar travel characteristics moving between zone pairs of the transportation network, and it is worth noting that reference period is a fundamental input for most transportation planning and design problems [4].

Gregory Johnson, a Yemen scholar from Princeton University, said the timing of his reappearance was "a characteristic Saleh move … He has done this many times in the past, setting himself up as a national saviour between two competing sides".