It is one of the more remarkable aspects of American political culture that Mr Murray's position might be characterised as a "populist" one, while liberal efforts to, say, provide every poor and working-class American with health insurance are seen as elitist and condescending.
His focus on children's social and social services might be characterised as calculating, opaque, a liability and dissembling (cold).
The scientists reacted angrily, accusing the politicians of being in thrall to the meat and dairy industries (given how many of the scientists depend on research funding from food and pharmaceutical companies, this might be characterised as audacious).
In what might be characterised as a negative feedback loop, this meddling has been fed by, and has in turn helped to feed, a general impulse towards the re-regulation of business.
In fact, English Passengers is a distinguished addition to a vein of post-war British writing that has featured in the literary prize lists these 30 years or more: a spreading clump of historical fiction whose underlying assumption might be characterised not as "my country, right or wrong" but, quite simply, as "my country, wrong".
Balazs, along with Bence Palfi and Zoltan Kekecs, two other psychology researchers at Eotvos Lorand University, gathered a sample of stories — 180 in all — from news sites, blogs, forums and other publicly available literature in which an action was described that might be characterised as stupid.
Long-term relationships might be characterised as those that involve couples who share a firm commitment.
On the one hand, our participants' transnational couple relationships might be characterised as an individualised intimate space.
(Rawls's "limited altruism" in the "circumstances of justice" seems derived from Hume, and so might be characterised as a conservative feature of Rawls' thought).
Their recollections might be characterised as 'oral history'.
