Sentence examples for characterized past from inspiring English sources

Its format is different from the more traditional novels that have characterized past Newbery winners.

Onlookers wondered whether Mr. Blair would display his famously dismissive and tetchy behavior that had characterized past clashes with detractors.

The wines produced none of the sneering and ridicule — I mean, constructive analysis — that has characterized past wine panel Thanksgivings.

Mrs. Geus said that while a reluctance to take on local affairs that might seem political in nature might have characterized past boards, the society's new leadership was ready to poll its members on issues like preserving farmland.

They go about their business in a workmanlike way, they are free of the annoying egos that characterized past Yankee teams, and even their owner, George Steinbrenner, seems to have grown less churlish with age.

Congress is poised to approve a 1998 budget near last year's level of $225 million without the rancor that has characterized past budget fights.

Palynological data were then compared to published palaeo-genetic analyses conducted on the same core and to various available instrumental data, allowing us to better characterize past environmental variability since the second half of the 19th century in Western Brittany.

However, at the present time, charcoal analysis is generally limited to the study of a list of taxa and their relative frequency, as the methods usually employed in dendrochronology to characterize past woodland, based on long tree-ring series, are not suitable for anthracological material.

They characterize past research as incomplete.

One challenge in assessing the health effects of human exposure to air pollution in epidemiologic studies is the lack of widespread historical air pollutant monitoring data with which to characterize past exposure levels.

The diversity and distribution of CRISPR-Cas systems in Salinispora spp. was investigated to (i) assess the role of CRISPRs in phage defense, (ii) characterize past interactions with foreign genetic elements, (iii) elucidate linkages between CRISPR features and Salinispora microdiversity, and (iv) identify biogeographic signatures in CRISPR and prophage content.