(1) Some historians characterize Du Bois's thinking as riddled with contradiction.(2) Consistently high temperatures, with no distinct dry season, characterize the climate of this region.(3) Because performance was so good, it was difficult to characterize differences associated with better or worse performance.(4) Only the most revisionist historian would characterize the Confederacy as an insurgency.(5) Mr. Kendall testified that what was being described he would characterize as a workmanship deficiency.(6) It's just not accurate to characterize newspaper design as anything but dynamic.(7) A predilection for forms over human figures characterises her work in installation art.(8) However, only a small number of hotspots have been characterized in detail.(9) Instead, he claims the period was characterised by civil wars and broken treaties.(10) Those early years of our young republic were characterized by chaos and confusion.(11) He characterises descriptive metaphysics as formulating expressions of norms of representation.(12) Second, this study suggests that drugs have to be characterized also in terms of the timescale of their effects.(13) The vocal characterizations are a shallow mimicry of the first movie, and the plotting and characterization are poor as well.(14) The cycle is characterised by a period of growth, then strong growth and then recession.(15) That would involve a characterisation of those laws and there might well be difficulty in characterising those laws as anything other than penal, when one looks at the purpose of the laws.(16) How could we characterise the nature of conflicts that have emerged throughout the world?