According to how scientists characterize a living thing, an unborn child is a living thing.
Any such property would characterize substances (rather than other properties, or states, or abstract objects); it would be a property that could characterize a simple thing; it would be an internal (or, as some might prefer to say, "intrinsic") property of anything it characterized -- thus a thing existing in isolation could have such a qualitative property.
But there is one thing that characterizes a surprisingly large number of the people who are transforming public schools: they attended private schools.
Wigs, clothing you know all those other things that characterize a person outside of the color of his or her skin.
They tried to stimulate a resident in continuing activities he/she used to perform, and paid attention to the things that characterized a particular resident, with the ultimate goal to continue a resident's self and identity: She is also quite interested in her appearance with her lipstick and her jewellery.... Yes, she does find personal care important.
Graham has historically criticized Obama for not being able to cut deals, and the deals he cut during the lame duck session were the moment he "changed" and became able to cut deals, which Graham characterizes as a good thing, while simultaneously asking me to forget that five minutes ago he was whining about how terrible the lame duck session was!
And users' data gets passed around and fed to targeting networks and I think, and to some degree I hope, there will be a change over the next ten years or so where partly people become aware that the data that is collected, that characterizes the things they do, their likes and interests, that that's an asset that actually is theirs to own and control," argued Medlock.
The intuitive idea behind the distinction seems to be that predications in these other categories concern only how the subject relates to other things; only substantial, quantitative and qualitative attributes characterize the thing itself.
India's music devotees are hopeful that the shoddy organization and short performer lineups that once characterized music "festivals" here are a thing of the past.
Secondly, it characterizes things as material and spatio-temporal entities, that is, as physical objects.
