Sentence examples for tough characteristic from inspiring English sources

The hard yet tough characteristic and high wear resistance for the deposited coatings were attributed to the special nanocomposite microstructures as well as the synergistic lubricant effect derived from both sp2-riched amorphous carbon and V2O5 Magnéli phases formed during friction stage.

SEM characterization shows the tough characteristics and great interfacial combination strength for g-SiO2 (5 wt%)/PLLA nanocomposites.

"It means everything to me because I want local kids and people that have come through our system with all those tough characteristics I want them to have.

Both marking methods depended on the tough skin characteristic of X. laevis and the light background provided by the ventral surface.

Glucomannans, in particular, give extremely tough physical characteristics to some cell walls [ 31].

Dr Reid also showed his characteristic tough side, revealing he had immediately, on becoming home secretary, paid an unannounced visit to the immigration headquarter at Lunar House, joking that this was the only to find out what was going on without the place "smelling of fresh paint".

The tough talk is characteristic of Reid's time in the Senate as a partisan bomb-thrower.

The success of arthropods can partly be attributed to the protection offered by their characteristic tough exoskeleton.

Even the minority leader, Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, calls that goal, with characteristic understatement, "tough".

Mr. Biden, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination himself this year before pulling out after performing poorly in the first contest, in Iowa, has shown himself to be a tough political brawler, a characteristic that many Democrats say Mr. Obama has not displayed against Mr. McCain.

We speculated that the polymorphisms of ZNF665 might lead to poor gene expression because of poor DNA binding ability, which might disturb cell growth and differentiation; in turn, this disturbance might impede epithelial repair and lead to the dry, cracked, scaly, or tough skin that is characteristic of patients with the YZ constitution.