Sentence examples for characteristics say from inspiring English sources

Strategically valuable resources have five characteristics, say Collis and Montgomery: 1) They're difficult for rivals to copy.

The method behind conjoint analysis is fairly simple: Respondents in public opinion surveys are given hypothetical matchups between two candidates whose characteristics — say, religion, wealth, ethnic background — are randomly altered in the survey.

For example they allow a million times more current to flow when they are on compared with off when operating at a voltage of about 1.5 V. "[A light effect transistor] can replicate the basic switching function of the modern field effect transistor with competitive (and potentially improved) characteristics," say Marmon and co.

Those characteristics, say three experts -- Patek, a stand-up comedian, and a scientific communication expert -- are among the most important factors in using humor to your advantage.

Groups of species recognized as taxonomically distinct on the basis of particular characteristics (say, "flowering plants" or "beetles") may have appeared at different times in the history of life and thus may be of different ages.

Mendel's Third Law, the Law of Independent Assortment asserts that when there are factor pairs for different characteristics, say a factor pair for flower color and a factor pair for plant height, that the segregation of the flower color factors when gametes are formed is causally independent of the segregation of the factor pair for plant height.

"It is a stock exchange with Chinese characteristics," says Zhang.

"The U.S. economy has shown remarkable recovery characteristics," said Christine Callies, chief United States strategist at Merrill Lynch.

"We look for people who exhibit certain characteristics," said Bill Turpin, a founder of ThemeStream.

The series in the top five share several characteristics, said Stacey Lynn Koerner, president at the Consumer Experience Practice.

"We do we have more instruction regarding sage grouse protections, more instruction regarding inventory of lands that may provide wilderness characteristics," said Wyoming BLM spokeswoman Beverly Gorny.