The distinguishing characteristic is that oil and gas production slumped last year, far more than expected.
Another rare characteristic is his sunny outlook: this is a critic who rarely criticises.
One consistent characteristic is the performance of the ritual by both men and women, side by side.
An essential characteristic is the possession of a reasonable amount of discretionary income.
While the museum is a jumble of rectangular blocks stacked in seemingly haphazard ways, its defining characteristic is the plain white facade.
Its defining characteristic is the low-observable, or stealth, features that make it nearly impossible to track or target using conventional radar or heat-seeking missiles.
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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.
Another characteristic is that mercury becomes more concentrated as it moves up the food chain, reaching its highest levels in predator fish that may be consumed by humans, the report adds.
If this characteristic is true, and assuming late 2011 as roughly the time when substantial momentum had begun, then the next three years is a make or break time for data science.
There are no characteristics in terms of age, sex, social or cultural background -- the only characteristic is to live relatively close to the area where the projects are carried out, in Paris.
Far Cry 3 goes a little bit farther, with a protagonist so deeply boring and broish that his only defining characteristic is being a white dude, and the ending throws in a few twists that manage to one up even Avatar on paternalism.
CTBT, this fundamental flaw, which is characteristic of global agreements, is greatly magnified.
DNA, and it has a characteristic that is particularly useful for scientists who want to examine it: it seems to prefer laboratory life.
This is a fundamental characteristic of bonds which is calculated and quantified by the duration of the bond.
Chadwick believes branding stadiums reveals a consensus in football that is characteristic of German society and culture, where sponsor and fan cooperation is seen as for the club's greater good.
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Another aspect of this is the American characteristic of our individualism that is unarguably knitted together into a social fabric of cooperation.
Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas and information, the defining characteristic of which is surprise.
"Many of the responses we have received, to which we are of course responding individually, stress the happy mixture of university and community use which is currently characteristic of the arts centre - but this is exactly what we want to preserve and enhance, " said the statement.
Being highly centered is characteristic of many of the most successful and wealthiest individuals.
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Each characteristic of excellence is like a muscle: exercise it and it will become stronger.
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If Mr Berlusconi's heterogeneous package has a distinguishing characteristic, it is an aversion to confronting vested interests.
The primary characteristic of money is that it is the item mutually acceptable as a means of payment.
What's more, Pratt said his map showed that the feature is circular, which is characteristic of impact craters.
Ironically, the way in which Aeneas abandons Dido in favour of his preordained fate is characteristic of Carthaginian treachery.
The book's subtitle, "The Hero of Heroes, " is characteristic of the approach.
As is characteristic of this organization and its founder and president, Frank Gaffney, grand retrospectives were deferred in favor of looking to the battles ahead.
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It is characteristic of committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection differs violently from every other member's recollection.
It is characteristic Caro giant plates of rusting steel, bolted and welded together into four sets of tall, step-like forms, back to back, which gives them the appearance of ziggurats.
The music has that deceptively dashed-off quality that is characteristic of younger-than-Neil hip-hop performers, punk-inspired rockers and the rare musicians of Neil Young's generation who haven't settled into complacent craftsmanship.
While the slate itself was previously used (this is a loaner from ASUS), the Mobile Dock arrived factory sealed so I have to assume this is characteristic of every piece of hardware.
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