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The future of Barack Obama's signature healthcare reforms hangs in the balance after facing a rigorous challenge from conservative justices on the supreme court.
Support for Welsh independence, Plaid's signature policy, is on a mere 6%.
The relative crudeness of the work suggested until now that the works were copies, but research published in the magazine Sapiens by the architect David Agulló and the geologist Daniel Barbé shows that they pre-date Gaudí's signature buildings and were in fact prototypes for features in Park Güell, the Sagrada Familia and the nearby Colònia Güell, all of which Gaudí was working on at the time.
Mum wrote an awful letter in my name, which I refused to sign, but she forged my signature and the rest is his tory.
A full half-century after its release, Lulu opened a celebratory evening with an exuberant version of her signature single Shout, while – in a twist that was nothing if not original – the thousands of athletes emerged from hundreds of tents on the Hampden Park pitch.
They enlisted the support of Russell Brand, who lives nearby, and organised hundreds of residents and other supporters to march on Westbrook's UK offices in Berkeley Square last month to deliver a 300,000 signature petition to David Cameron, calling on him to save their homes.
It is said that the umpires themselves are starting to recognise what is effectively the signature of a team's designated ball polisher.
It says a lot about the first-term senator that he managed to dismantle parts of the Patriot Act – one of George W Bush's signature pieces of anti-terrorist legislation – enraging much of his party, and emerge claiming "victory no matter how you look at it".
If you title yourself after the greatest record producer in history, one with a reputation for the magnificent and grand, with probably the most recognisable signature sound in pop, you've put yourself under pressure from the start.
His insight is humbling, deeply grained, outrageously perceptive and full of a signature humour.
The 1,200 conservatives who gathered in Iowa for a political cattle call on Saturday cheered, whooped and applauded enthusiastically at speakers' sharp criticisms of President Barack Obama's response to Islamist terrorism, signature healthcare reforms and executive action on immigration.
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The word "signature" primarily functions as a noun , referring to a person's handwritten name used for authorization or a distinctive characteristic. Ludwig showcases its use in contexts ranging from legal documents to describing unique styles.
Expression frequency: Very common
