When engineering lipid membranes for applications, it is essential to characterize them to avoid artifacts introduced by manipulation and the experimental environment.
When collecting data from several filaments in the same animal, only units with non-overlapping receptive fields were characterized, so as to avoid sensitization by previously applied stimuli.
The avoidance-centered style is characterized by a tendency to avoid thinking, experiencing, or living through a threatening situation.
However, tumor cells are characterized by being able to avoid anoikis in response to loss of adhesion.
According to Bleuler, autistic thinking was characterized by infantile wishes to avoid unsatisfying realities and replace them with fantasies and hallucinations.
The Reuters news agency, for example, only uses terms such as "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" in direct quotes or third-party attributions to avoid characterizing the subjects of news stories.
Perhaps it is because of the Court's objection to the concept of a "level playing field" that Eric Friedman, a spokesperson for the CFB, is careful to avoid characterizing its system with the phrase.
In her 2002 book, A Problem from Hell, Samantha Power describes the Clinton Administration's contortions to avoid characterizing as genocide the killings of the Muslims in Bosnia and Tutsi in Rwanda.
After King made news by saying to the New York Times, Whitee nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization how did that language become offensive?" NBC News advised its staffers in an email last week to "avoid characterizing [King's] remarks as racist… It is ok to attribute to others as in 'what many are calling racist' or something like that".
The USPSTF also recommended against routine screening to avoid characterizing all women the same way and emphasized an individualized approach for women.
