Characterises

The chaos that erupted in Ibadan, Abuja, and Anambra was not just a result of poor planning by the authorities, but also of the collective impatience and desperation that characterises public events in Nigeria.

I think the thing that characterises us differently is we are willing and will show you, a pathway to carbon neutrality that's quite unique and different in the industry.

OK, so Esparza cheerfully characterises himself as lazy, and a cry-baby.

The same alternation of win-loss-win characterises State of Origin rugby league, where the two sides know each other intimately and the competition is ferocious, with grudges carried from one game into the next.

Generally speaking, a level of bearishness characterises market activity, as the US-China trade war continues to rattle nerves.

Discretion also characterises the way Corinna Schumacher and her husband’s manager, Sabine Kehm, have succeeded in drawing a veil of privacy around the family’s home in Switzerland, where special facilities were installed for Michael’s treatment and care.

For all the petty disagreement and lost faith that characterises contemporary politics, Steel makes it rousingly clear why some battles remain worth fighting.

Pomp and fanfare characterises the event as the children are dancing and singing along to Killer T’s music.

The setting up of a Defence Cyber Agency has been announced but this is a typical half-hearted step which characterises our strategic planning process.

Contentious issues Most of Fiji's political controversies are related to the ethnic fault line that characterises Fijian politics.

Dik characterises functional grammar as follows: In the functional paradigm a language is in the first place conceptualized as an instrument of social interaction among human beings, used with the intention of establishing communicative relationships.

He characterises himself as a monk and tells a long story about the history of Thebes before the events of the Knight's Tale.

He characterises James as 'capable of highly effective short-term interventions' yet had failed to achieve a position of unqualified authority.

He characterises the policy of Manuel as "short-sighted", because "he lost a splendid opportunity of recovering the former possessions of the Empire, and by his departure threw away most of the actual fruits of his expedition".

He was much given to secluding himself, retiring every May into the woods of Hoghton Tower and remaining there a month.sfn Bailey continues that Dr. Halley justly characterises him as the most meditative puritan of Lancashire.

In revising as he did, "Wilde transformed standard nonsense into the more systemic and disconcerting illogicality which characterises Earnest's dialogue".

Mainstream scholarship characterises the extravagant praise for de Vere's poetry more as a convention of flattery than honest appreciation of literary merit.

Murry characterises the later Blake as having found "mutual understanding" and "mutual forgiveness".

Nietzsche characterises this ascetic attitude as a "will to nothingness ", whereby life turns away from itself, as there is nothing of value to be found in the world.

Nietzsche characterises this ascetic attitude as a "will to nothingness", whereby life turns away from itself, as there is nothing of value to be found in the world.