Sikkim's cultural life, though showing strong Tibetan influences, retains a character derived from the various tribes of Sikkim and their pre-Buddhist customs.
The idea was to retain a character-based game, where players could see the character they were playing, while keeping the tightness and accuracy of first-person shooters.
This is interpreted by the specific lamellae microstructure that retained a nanocomposite character even after lamellae partly decomposed during annealing.
Born in Michigan to Selma Erickson, an immigrant from Grangesberg, Sweden, and to Herman Theodore Seaborg, a second generation Swedish immigrant, Seaborg spoke Swedish from childhood and was brought up in a household which retained a Swedish character.
Despite its embrace of other popular styles, country music retained an unmistakable character as one of the few truly indigenous American musical styles.
Until then the higher forms of culture had retained an esoteric character, being transmitted by the master to a few chosen disciples as in the first schools of medicine at Cnidus and at Cos or within the framework of a religious confraternity involving initiate status.
West Virginia, however — with a smaller black population than the Deep South, and heavy unionization — retained a strong Democratic character into the nineties.
Yet despite the more dignified name, parts of the neighborhood -- within the shadow of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center -- have retained a blue-collar character.
That, of course, is a blessing since it means that it has largely escaped the attentions of chain stores, multi-nationals and money-grubbing developers and has thus retained a bit of character.
As Gateshead expanded southward to meet the village, Low Fell became a residential suburb of Gateshead but one which has, through its atypical development, has retained a rural village character.
