In the past, industry could be broadly characterised as lacking ambition, productivity and competitiveness.
Characterised as a dispassionate strategist, Mr McGuinness became Sinn Fein's chief negotiator in the Good Friday Agreement talks.
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And it seems that gay men, though often characterised as promiscuous, are settling down in greater numbers than lesbians.
Blair and Brown, characterised as reluctant Europeans too timid to make the case, may be more effective champions of Europe than they know.
The idea that the court's work would suffer because of a lack of funds was characterised as "totally unacceptable" by Liberal Democrat Lord Dykes.
He added that given what he characterised as Israel's scant regard for the work of the IAEA, "I'll not dignify (the charge) that we're biased".
"We are unable to identify a case in which the alleged behaviour leading to conviction could not properly be characterised as 'abusive' as well as 'insulting', " he wrote.
This type of ecosystem behaviour is increasingly characterised as fail fast fail cheap, a Darwinian process where projects fail in order that management can refine products and objectives.
Mr Obama's envoy George Mitchell has made several trips to the region, meeting Israel's recently installed prime minister, who Arab critics have characterised as an opponent of a negotiated peace settlement.
Predictably agreement on the detail is now bogged down in spats, which can generally be characterised as supplicant, struggling southern nations wanting easier terms for potential rescues than the rich north would prefer.
When the Fed was first created, in 1913, its Wall Street progenitors had to meet in secret at the exclusive Jekyll Island Club in Georgia, for fear that the new institution would be characterised as a "bankers' cabal".
Ms Lamont characterised that as "hunt the alibi" which, on the day, was reasonably effective.
Asked to describe the mood of delegates in one broadcast, I characterised them as resolute and determined.
Lord Justice Leveson insists that "this is not, and cannot be characterised, as statutory regulation of the press".
Margaret Mitchell characterised herself as the arch-Unionist, opposed to the new tax powers for Holyrood in the Scotland Bill.
Now some have characterised this as the banks being able to lend under the Bank of England's new Funding for Lending Scheme, free of capital charge.
Both women were said to be suffering from Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, which is characterised by such actions as compulsive hoarding of rubbish.
The site's founder, Jimmy Wales, told the BBC: "Proponents of Sopa have characterised the opposition as being people who want to enable piracy or defend piracy".
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Whiplash is characterised by the NHS as a neck injury caused by a sudden movement of the head forwards, backwards or sideways.
Instead, Mr Blair characterised those, such as Mr Cameron, who argue for a change in the UK's relationship with the EU as really being in favour of withdrawal.
This has been characterised in some quarters as the British government waving a stick at Stormont, prompting both Sinn Fein and the DUP to hit back angrily at the Northern Ireland Office.
Another Labour peer, Lord Davies of Stamford, characterised the pay gap as "highly unsatisfactory and unedifying" and suggested that companies should have to publish reasons for the decisions they take over pay-scales.
The International Monetary Fund's September 2011 World Economic Outlook, characterised a volatile global economy as "bipolar".
Education constitutes another great challenge as it is characterised by significant gender and income inequalities.
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At one point, he characterised comments criticising the settlement as "whines" and said critics sought "a grab bag of personal advantages for Microsoft competitors".
And if paying tax is part of CSR, then the public sector is being characterised - in essence - as a charitable good cause.
Meanwhile, Kuchma characterised the "Kaniv Four" as " brutes" who were "interested in power and only in power - at any price, " Unian reported.
Once again, as he did in the run-up to the 2007 federal election, Hicks has exposed the chasm between what might crudely be described as 'literary festival Australia' and 'talkback radio Australia' - the 'leftist urban elites', as they are often characterised, and the populist right.
Mr Hague characterised the government's foreign policy as "confident advance and diplomatic expansion".
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