What could be a characteristic of a company becomes a characteristic of a sector.
FORBES: 3 Megatrends for 2012 - Or Why Shared Value is Indeed an Answer
But what if this decline is a characteristic of corporate size rather than an economic trend?
FORBES: 3 Megatrends for 2012 - Or Why Shared Value is Indeed an Answer
His phrases have a characteristic ripple, a shape that is always and only Perahia.
Zoom in on the diver in the photo and you can see a characteristic Photoshop halo.
FORBES: Lion's Mane Jellyfish Image: This Is (Literally) How Things Blow Up On The Internet!
Self-doubt is a characteristic that a modern president of either party must banish as he speaks.
Hamilton topped the timesheets in all three qualifying sessions in Montreal with a characteristic display of attacking but assured driving.
This produces a characteristic wiggle on a graph, a so-called power spectrum, which can then be matched against theoretical expectation.
But after that, he expects seasonal forces and federal-budget politicking to send stocks into a characteristic second- and third-quarter correction.
The ability to multitask and assimilate new information on the fly has always been a characteristic of the best PR practitioners.
FORBES: Information Overload and the Power of the Human Brain
This may be a characteristic seen on other envelopes he has sent.
There is one more striking parallel, but this is not a characteristic of the three political ideologies, but one of the West.
DNA, and it has a characteristic that is particularly useful for scientists who want to examine it: it seems to prefer laboratory life.
"If you look at Dell's profitability and financial characteristics, you'd be hard-pressed to call this a terrible business, " he says, with a characteristic grin.
Most diffuse X-ray sources in the Universe have a characteristic temperature because they represent the residual radiation from an event, such as a supernova.
But while twin studies are useful for establishing the extent to which a characteristic is heritable, they do not finger the particular genes at work.
Apple's reputation for market-leading innovation took a knock after the iPhone 5 was seen as an iteration of an earlier design rather than a characteristic step-change.
Within 24 to 48 hours, an itchy red bump that resembles a bug bite develops, with a characteristic black area in the center where the skin is dying.
Rosanne and her team have designed a solution rooted in collaboration (which, as David Bornstein so eloquently noted last week, is a characteristic of many social entrepreneurs).
FORBES: What Hurricane Sandy Can Teach Us About Ending Homelessness
Forrest Gump was O'Donnell's affectionate nickname when he played for Celtic, in honour of his tireless running - a characteristic of the film's main character, played by Tom Hanks.
Scott looks good in a suit, whereas the office boss in the BBC original, David Brent, had a characteristic slump highlighted by a wrinkled white shirt and a cheap tie.
The Yuki-tsumugi technique is employed to produce pongee silk (also called raw silk) - a light and warm material with a characteristic stiffness and softness, traditionally used to make kimonos.
These enabled them to cross-refer their observations on 5 January 2000 to earlier observations and to evaluate a characteristic pattern of illness as it had evolved over a period of several months.
Higher levels of school autonomy are a characteristic of many higher performing systems - headed by China, the Netherlands, the UK and Hong Kong (which is considered as a separate school system in such education rankings).
For all the appeal of the city as a shopping destination - a characteristic that, anyhow, has been more an image than a reality for years - it is not much of a place for children.
It also lowered the so-called good cholesterol, or high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and it did not enter the cell, a characteristic Medford wanted hisdrug to have, because some of the oxidation process takes place within cellular membranes.
But as the first stars condensed out of the newly formed atoms, the heat and light they produced would have started to tickle the hydrogen clouds around them into emitting radio signals at a characteristic wavelength of 21cm.
Important characteristics of Kabuki theatre include its particular music, costumes, stage devices and props as well as specific plays, language and acting styles, such as the mie, in which the actor holds a characteristic pose to establish his character.
Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.
应用推荐