"personal characteristic" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a feature or trait that is unique to a person or group of people. For example, "The outgoing nature of their team leader was a personal characteristic that brought people together."
For instance, personality may prove to be an easily measurable personal characteristic that predicts outcome.
A hate crime is defined as "any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic".
A hate crime is defined as "any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic".
It doesn't matter what personal characteristic we're talking about — gender, race, social background.
But this was a personal characteristic of his that should not, even from afar, discredit his qualities.
Sexuality, Judge Stephen Reinhardt held, is like race and gender: a personal characteristic lawyers may not consider when nixing jurors.
"This administration will not allow -- in any form, at any level or in any industry -- the existence of workplace barriers that operate to exclude on the basis of gender or any other impermissible personal characteristic".
The new databases and statistical tools allow candidates to seek out individuals by predicting what personal characteristic, or what combination of characteristics, makes a voter worthy of a tailor-made outreach effort.
"The personal characteristic of turning on a dime and doing good and not evil is the most important fact in this sentencing," she said before sentencing Monsegur to time served plus a year on parole.
Another security measure is to require some form of physical authentication, such as an object (a physical token or a smart card) or a personal characteristic (fingerprint, retinal pattern, hand geometry, or signature).
The website asks its contributors to avoid comments which "incite hatred on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality or sexuality or other personal characteristic", but I don't see how else you could interpret this, for example: "Stop wasting taxpayers money, by favouring the asylums".
