Justice and humanity were "defining characteristics" of being Scottish, he said, and outweighed the atrocity Megrahi had been convicted for.
His maverick and flamboyant style soon came to be defining characteristics of the glam rock period.
Defining characteristics of the gothic are wonderfully present and correct: the house falling into decrepitude; a girl's face glimpsed at a wet window; villainy encroaching on innocence.
Secrecy and wishful thinking, the Pentagon official said, are defining characteristics of Rumsfeld's Pentagon, and shaped its response to the reports from Abu Ghraib.
Flexibility and deployment speed will be defining characteristics of good software.
Focus on observations that are defining characteristics of that customer.
Not only has the population grown, but defining characteristics of the population have changed.
Increased cell invasion and migration are defining characteristics of metastatic cancer cells.
But these special events are not defining characteristics of asexual reproduction.
Notably, defining characteristics of exosomes are also related to their endosomal origins.
Whilst these changes are common, they are not defining characteristics of the entire obese population.
