Mr. Clinton characterized his views as part of larger strategy for the transformation of Russia from a hostile dictatorship to a friendly democracy that belongs to the West.
Today, Mr. Obama espouses more centrist views and says a campaign aide had incorrectly characterized his views on those issues — a shift that does not sit well with some in the group, the Independent Voters of Illinois Independent Precinct Organization.
"You're not the boss of me, as my kids used to say!" Mr. Romney said, to laughter, quibbling with the way one man characterized his views on climate change.
Savage has characterized his views as conservative nationalism, while critics have characterized them as "fostering extremism or hatred".
In that conversation, Mr. Bush remarked somewhat dismissively about his opponent for president, Al Gore, characterizing his view as "we will conserve our way out of the crisis".
"Irreplaceable, legendary, iconic, a treasure," Mr. Nelson said of the Cactus, characterizing his view as a mix of sadness, disbelief and anger.
Santayana does not characterize his view as one-way interactionism, primarily because he does not think of spirit as an object to be acted upon.
In describing the adaptation of Double Indemnity, noir analyst Foster Hirsch describes the "requisite hopeless tone" achieved by the filmmakers, which appears to characterize his view of noir as a whole.
One way to characterize his views is that we shouldn't be so enamored with cheap foreign labor, low supply costs, and low prices.
Though he himself did not characterize his views in these terms, we can mark his ethos by the term "Religious Humanism"; a conception that joined together a religious orthodoxy with a determination to inculcate in Jews an allegiance to modern education and culture.
