Mr. Mitchell left the Middle East on Sunday after completing what the State Department characterized as the first round of talks, and was to return next week.
The revenue-sharing deal, announced on Wednesday, was characterized as the first of its kind between a radio station owner and a music act.
Mr. Donovan, who was New York City's commissioner of housing and development before joining the Obama administration, said that HUD had also commissioned what it characterized as the first national study of housing discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people.
The front-end engineering development (FEED) part of a project is characterized as the first 20 to 30percentt of the engineering of a project.
In what has been characterized as the first referendum, Aristides was ostracised, and Themistocles's policies were endorsed.
Gale noted that The Bread-Winners has sometimes been characterized as the first anti-labor novel, but it was preceded by Thomas Bailey Aldrich's The Stillwater Tragedy (1880).
Noteworthy, chronic-inflammation is a predisposing cause in various malignancies and is often characterized as the seventh hallmark of cancer [ 7].
TbSP1 identified a novel family of fungal/bacterial PLA2s [ 36] and, more recently, a T. borchii EST was characterized as the first member of the new family of Cyanovirin-N Homology [ 37].
Recently HapX, a transcription factor that governs iron homeostasis, was characterized as the first virulence determinant required for both plant and animal infection in the same fungal strain (Lopez-Berges et al., 2012).
This type of phosphatase gene has also been reported in Arabidopsis during the screening of a cDNA library for interaction with a RLK (receptor like protein kinase) protein kinase domain and has been finally characterized as the first downstream regulator of an RLK [ 16].
Examining the highest loadings suggests that the first component can be characterized as "complexity" and the second as "theories".
