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It's characteristic of him to behave like that.
It is not characteristic of you to say such a thing to her.
It is characteristic of him to do such a thing.
It is characteristic of him.
That is a characteristic inherent in him.
The aurora is a phenomenon characteristic of the polar regions.
A green color is a characteristic of that type of apple.
He spoke with a softness characteristic of southerners.
That's very characteristic for him.
Productivity is the employee's most important characteristic.
Slow speech is characteristic of that man.
It's characteristic of him to be late.
Laughing troubles away is characteristic of him.
Movie subtitles
Characteristic traits?
A characteristic winding river in Las Hurdes with tiny plots beside it.
Well, what's her leading characteristic?
A characteristic of your generation. But in this case, I must ask you to follow some sort of logical progression.
Look, note the black coloring, characteristic of the meteor, the fusion from heat, the nickel and iron.
Except, perhaps, in the form of this characteristic arch.
Characteristic of a four-footed animal.
Their most charming characteristic.
Her unpunctuality used to be her most irritating characteristic.
The characteristic which distinguished man from animals was the spirit of self-sacrifice.
Here is one of the most characteristic facts of hysteria.
His most outstanding characteristic.
That the blue splotches characteristic of the unknown disease had appeared on each of us, with the exception of Mr. Spock. There was a well-equipped laboratory in the building.
Never ones to shirk responsibility Bruce and Dick, with characteristic speed and resolve descend promptly to the Batcave.
My client. -Your client is a great actress. I'm sure some of her tears are real, but her exaggerated emotions are characteristic of her trade.
It's a characteristic we Irish have in common with the elephants.
You don't understand my fundamental characteristic.
In the first place, he didn't put handcuffs on Colonel Moran so I had to do it myself and in the second place, Inspector Macdonald, during the fight, was more hindrance than help, which is not characteristic of a real policeman.
Note the black colouring, characteristic of the meteor.
It's a family characteristic.
Do you recall any distinguishing characteristic?
The characteristic which distinguished man from animals. was the spirit of self-sacrifice.
It's exactly him. And his gait, so characteristic.
Plus, it has another exceptional characteristic.
That the blue splotches characteristic of the unknown disease had appeared on each of us, with the exception of Mr. Spock.
A characteristic of your generation.
It is a national characteristic.
That's characteristic.
The arches have a characteristic, four-layered profile.
Heart attacks happen in public all the time and they all share one characteristic.
Its characteristic was an ever-increasing inflation of the death penalty.
The characteristic traits of these watercolors were small, stylized houses in the background, and in the foreground, people of a normal, realistic size.
Everyone knows it's characteristic of vases of that era.
But I did get the distinct impression she found them the most attractive human characteristic of all.
It is a human characteristic to love little animals, especially if they're attractive in some way.
News and current affairs
A recurrent characteristic of Europe's debt-crisis debate is a Latin American precedent.
By the early 1950's, however, biologists still could not explain how an organism reproduces its characteristic form from one generation to another.
Indeed, similar patterns are characteristic of most post-modern societies.
Though his memoirs paint a characteristic portrait of a leader who knew what he was doing, research for my new biography shows that his policy towards the crisis across the Mediterranean combined hope and frustration.
Both have their characteristic benefits and costs.
One characteristic of Swiss law is that it distinguishes between tax evasion and tax fraud.
Whereas many regard Israel's toughness as its principal characteristic, India's own citizens view it as a soft state, its underbelly easily penetrated by determined terrorists.
The characteristic form by which music activates the imagination is by short evocations of out-of-context images, or a diffuse feeling of boundlessness, both of which need not be integrated into any meaningful context.
Constitutionally, European nations display characteristic richness.
The site is a pine forest near an old highway, distinguished by the small, regular depressions in the earth that are characteristic of such graves.
Where individuals were the central actors in the characteristic rituals of dominance and homage in European feudalism, in Hindu society the relationships were always defined in terms of caste groups.
Indeed, along with talent and interest, as well as mathematical or other quantitative abilities, curiosity is a necessary characteristic of any successful scientist.
Individual teams are to enter a pan-European competition to determine the best of the best, opening a free space for scientific curiosity and enabling the unforeseeable outcomes that are characteristic of cutting-edge research.
Instead, a wide variety of genes influence each characteristic.
Indeed, one characteristic sign of economic vitality is the frequency of bankruptcy, for business failures indicate a willingness to gamble and take risks on innovation.
An important characteristic of the risks of a globalized world is that they often become more serious over time.
But in my judgment, this is characteristic of far-from-equilibrium situations when perceptions tend to lag behind reality.
PARIS - The widespread introduction of unconventional monetary-policy measures by major central banks has been a defining characteristic of the global financial crisis.
Government interference in the election process was another characteristic of the elections, though this is something certainly old hat here.
What is happening in the US, for example, is not happening in Europe, but it is of course characteristic of some parts of the Middle East and Central Asia.
When it came, it carried Singh's characteristic warmth.
One common characteristic, then and now, is a power shift.
The key challenge for New Labour (as Blair re-styled it with his characteristic gift for spin), was the management of the British economy.
But this latest dispute is characteristic of a remarkable flurry of anti-Japanese activity in China since 2003.