Metestrus may be followed by anestrus, a nonreproductive period characterized by quiescence or involution of the reproductive tract.
Biographical works of the last centuries in the classical period, characterized by numerous sycophantic accounts of emperors, share the declining energies of the other literary arts.
The Postclassic period of Meso-American archaeology generally is a period characterized by considerable regionalism combined with a certain degree of uniformity.
Capping a period characterized by wild swings of hundreds of points, all three major indexes finished the month lower, despite rising for the day.
Several times he has spoken of another country in "chaos and confusion" during a period characterized by "looting, crime, mobs storming buildings, breakdown of government structures and institutions that maintained civil order, rampant inflation caused by the lack of a stable currency, supporters of the former regime roaming the streets......
Partisan debate over the war had grown even more intense since his appointment; the Bush Administration, for its part, had entered its late Karl Rove period, characterized by rococo flourishes the White House had insured, for example, that Petraeus's first critical testimony about the surge would coincide with the anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11 , 2001
The period characterized by so vast a body of elaborately representational art produced for the sake of illustrating anecdote also produced a number of painters who examined the mechanism of light and visual perception.
Postmodernists believe that Western society has passed beyond the modern intellectual era and is now in a postmodern period characterized partly by the realization that human life and thought is a mosaic comprising many perspectives.
The post-World-War-II period has been a technological age, a period characterized by rapid growth in energy-saving devices, both in the home and at the workplace.
The early Renaissance in Italy was essentially an experimental period characterized by the styles of individual artists rather than by any all-encompassing stylistic trend as in the High Renaissance or Mannerism.
That same year also began what some have called the "Great Acceleration," the postwar boom period characterized by exponential growth in the human population, fossil-fuel use, water use, food production, international communication, and the pace of land-use conversion.
