Sentence examples for has characterised it from inspiring English sources

But for Lane's supporters, the most troubling aspects of his case centre on the secrecy that has characterised it.

A source in Lisbon has insisted the investigation was proceeding steadily "but with the discretion that has characterised it from the beginning".

The UN high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein, voiced strong concern over Nasheed's "hasty and apparently unfair trial", and Amnesty International has characterised it as a "travesty of justice".

The Labour London mayor said the whole country "just needs to pause and reflect" and make sure the debate is not marred by the "climate of hatred, of poison, of negativity, of cynicism" that has characterised it so far.

Yes, Britten was notoriously attracted to adolescent boys; they inspired him, interested him and, as John Bridcut has characterised it in his excellent book and documentary, Britten's Children, he partly thought of himself as a 13-year-old.

In recent years metropolitan consensus has characterised it as a wasted land, strewn with towns that are less functioning communities than they are grim pockets of abandonment.

The hope is that Ukrainian politics will finally turn a corner and shed the backroom dealmaking and oligarchic control that have characterised it since independence.

Some, though, have characterised it as a gift to corrupt officials and criminals: it blocks the tax authorities from asking where the money comes from.

Many observers have characterised it as a backlash against an out-of-touch establishment, explaining Trump's victory – in the words of Thomas Piketty – as "primarily due to the explosion in economic and geographic inequality in the United States".

He moved millions of tons of earth, built hundreds of miles of sewers and cured the metropolis of the cholera, typhoid and stink that had characterised it during the first half of the nineteenth century.

She had characterised it as "a very big ballad but in an inspirational way" and denied speculation that there had been past rivalry or animosity between her and Houston prior to its recording: "I never even really talked to her until this.