The Conan Doyle Estate, an organisation that looks after the interests of Conan Doyle's heirs, has said that because ten stories were printed in America for the first time between 1923 and 1927 and so remain under copyright there all of Mr Holmes's and Dr John Watson's salient characteristics are therefore protected.
These salient characteristics are attributed to the high affinity of Tc for the repressor TetR2 and the high affinity of TetR2 for the operator sites, tetO1 and tetO2.
One of their salient characteristics is that they are obstinate.
Though Monica could frighten strong men and reduce typists to tears, her salient characteristics were warmth and a passion for architecture.
She has coolly avoided injecting so much as a hint of it into this thin, sharp and frequently funny novel; one of the narrator's salient characteristics is an inability to feel even the mildest indignation.
WHEN Roberto Mangabeira Unger looks at Brazil, the country of his birth, he sees a "big, seething caldron of life, whose most salient characteristic is its vitality".
The conceit of Patrick as presidential candidate is odd even by "SpongeBob" standards, given that his most salient characteristic is his staggering stupidity.
But, as the novel has transformed the cultural environment, species of humanity have given way to a universal crowd of individuals whose most salient characteristic is their being identically entertained.
Us Five's most salient characteristic is the twin-engine churn of Mr. Mela and Mr. Brown, who share an ethos of alert, dynamic drumming but feel the beat in subtly different ways.
Aside from shamelessness, his most salient characteristic is a noisy aversion to the English, partly because of a bad experience on the set of Dr Dolittle involving Rex Harrison, a monkey-puzzle tree and a packet of fags.
P is for Primes, the initial stage of sleep, whose most salient characteristic is the annoyance it causes in the outside worldNdogs barking, Messianists preaching on sidewalks, etc. Sigismund (S) is the second, contractive stage in which the body loses as much as an inch in length and four pounds in weight.
