There are several different kinds of election cycles, each with a distinctive character.

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The bold, distinctive character for "king" can be seen peppered throughout his works.

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According to James Dunkerley, the director of the new institute, the flows of ideas, people, goods, services and culture are now so substantial as to help to give a distinctive character to the hemisphere as a whole.

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