Sentence examples for peculiar to certain from inspiring English sources

Many cuckoo genera are peculiar to certain parts of the world; others are cosmopolitan.

The burqa is peculiar to certain Muslim cultures and is certainly not a feature of British Muslim life.

The detail, however, must be essential to the kind of thing being studied and not peculiar to certain instances of it.

Sometimes, this could lead to artistic stiffness – a live show I saw, while amazing, occasionally exuded the distinctly corporate "on-message" feel peculiar to certain superstars who cannot bear to tear their eyes off the main prize, even when, as artists, they should be immersed in the moment.

Empirical studies have indicated that many central philosophical intuitions are by no means universal, but rather peculiar to certain cultures, social classes and genders (Knobe and Nichols 2008).

We excluded variables with a prevalence below 3-53-5% higher than 95-97% from the analysis so as to restrict computations to evenly distributed assets and to avoid assets owned and peculiar to only certain segments of the population.

In a political rule peculiar to France, government ministers and certain other senior officials are allowed to run for Parliament, but then give up the posts to designated stand-ins if they win.

Professor Ledenyov, of the Moscow Conservatory, the oldest composer present, serenely maintained the old Soviet line, asserting that "there exists a Russian school of composers" characterized by "a conglomerate of certain features peculiar to this national culture and its folk music".

Thus, fear might be a combination of a certain thought (the thought that there is an abyss ahead), a certain desire (a desire not to fall), and certain sensations (those peculiar to anxiety).

The gymnosperms and angiosperms not only lack some reproductive structures found in the homosporous and heterosporous pteridophytes but also have certain reproductive structures peculiar to the seed plants.

Canary Islands Spanish (a distinct dialect of Spanish) is spoken in the Canaries, and certain archaic words peculiar to the archipelago show Portuguese influences.