These features make them global leaders; combining them with generous government spending on R&D and public education systems makes their innovation systems distinctively European.Even so, there are reasons to worry, even in northern Europe.
The series has also elevated its distinctively monikered cast members like Michael Sorrentino (a k a the Situation), Jenni Farley (JWoww) and Paul DelVecchio (Pauly D), making them the envy of unemployed milliennials, the scorn of Italian-American advocacy groups and unlikely ambassadors of their hurricane-devastated coastal escape.
We hear talk of distinctively "British values", such as tolerance, fair play, and some sort of mysto-juridical insight bestowed on our judges, which apparently makes them able to peer into people's souls.
And some do: Madeline Ashby's vN (Angry Robot) manages to take those generic clichés, robots, and make something distinctively 21st century out of them.
It is made by mashing the surplus bread into breadcrumbs before brewing it with malted barley, hops and yeast to make a distinctively flavoured ale.
But what begins to make it distinctively Munrovian is that, years ago, back in the 1960's and 1970's, the husband, Grant, had affair after affair with other women.
To show that the earliest religions arise from the same processes as the ritual capabilities which make us distinctively human, is not an argument that everything which subsequently evolved using those capabilities must be religious.
And yet so much of what would make O'Neill distinctively great — especially the angry but forgiving awareness of how family members are doomed to hurt one another — flickers hauntingly and authentically.
Our 'Humanity' is that collection of features that make us distinctively human, and these include capacities to engage in self-directed rational behavior and to adopt and pursue our own ends, and any other capacities necessarily connected with these.
Our speedboat flew across the water carrying shoppers to market – a young tailor going to buy zips, a hotel chef, and me on the hunt for the famous Bijagós basket weavers, who make distinctively shaped baskets to carry fish.
