Sentence examples for that they characterized from inspiring English sources

They were angry about trade treaties that they characterized as selling-out American workers while rewarding corporate executives and big investors.

Those lines have been much quoted, by commentators so thrown by the unfamiliar whiff of candor that they characterized the Republican candidate's message as a veiled threat.

Republican lawmakers tried to steer the debate to the plight of the small churches and religious groups that they characterized as needing greater latitude to compete for federal money that secular groups receive for their charitable works.

Investigators said yesterday that the cockpit voice recorder of American Airlines Flight 587 picked up sounds of the jet's frame rattling shortly before the pilots lost control of the plane, but no noises that they characterized as an explosion.

And then I don't think it's complicated; I think I got in and I adopted an economic plan that they characterized as a big tax increase, and the benefits of it weren't yet felt, and people weren't sure whether they were getting their taxes increased or not then.

In what has become an annual event in the era of mayoral control of the public school system, New York City education officials said Monday that they would move to close two schools this summer and begin to phase out 15 others that they characterized as the poorest performing.

Now, several union leaders have expressed outrage that they will take the brunt of disciplinary action for a practice that they characterize as departmentwide.

"The thing that offends me is that they characterize me as being an anti-Christian bigot," he said, "and that's far from the truth.

To win over his resentful countrymen, the formerly media-shy Mr. Quinn and his family have embarked on a campaign intended to counter the formidable forces that they characterize as the bank, the Irish government and the news media in Dublin.

Senior military officials have reluctantly acknowledged that small numbers of an American force in Iraq that they characterize as well trained and highly disciplined have committed assaults, thefts and other abuses against civilian Iraqis, outside of detention sites, since American troops invaded Iraq in March 2003.

Still, leaders of J Street and politicians aligned with the group say they believe they have helped shift the debate in Washington, broaden the politically acceptable options in Israel and advance an agenda that they characterize as both "pro-Israel" and "pro-peace".