Mathematicians like to characterize things by being formalist.

How would you characterize the historical significance of what's happened?

There is disagreement over how to characterize this oral declaration.

High fertility levels characterize the majority of the least developed countries.

The SRAPs focus on assisting countries to jointly address problems that characterize their shared ecosystems.

Well framed research and monitoring can help characterize the degree of decentralization and its consequences.5

I probably would not characterize the situation exactly as you have, though the thrust I would share.

7. Notes with satisfaction that in line with paragraph 7 of its resolution 60 182, the preliminary development of footprints that characterize diamond production from Côte d'Ivoire has been undertaken, and encourages expeditious commencement of further work to develop similar footprints for other diamond producers

Large current account imbalances continue to characterize the global economy, and a lower dollar would contribute to reducing the United States deficit.

The Ethiopian Armed Forces maintained the dispositions that I described in my last report, which they continue to characterize as purely defensive.

Kuwait's risk assessment uses low , central , and high values for four input variables (background mortality, population, exposure concentration and concentration response coefficient) to characterize uncertainty.

UNOPS management proposes to work out a strategy to address the fundamental problems of income volatility and high fixed costs that characterize the existing organizational arrangements.

And essentially what Bayes did was to provide a mathematical way using probability theory to characterize, describe, the way that scientists find out about the world.

My delegation is gravely concerned at the persistence of tensions, hostile rhetoric and skirmishes some with deadly consequences which characterize the situation along the Blue Line.

The Ethiopian Armed Forces maintained their forward positions, which they continue to characterize as defensive, 25 to 40 kilometres from the southern boundary of the Temporary Security Zone.

But instead of saying, we need to hire a professional class of librarians to organize these photos once they're uploaded, Flickr simply turned over to the users the ability to characterize the photos.

Many of the problems that characterize the complex US Mexican relationship will be ameliorated if Mexico can sustain rapid economic growth. Net immigration to the US, which has already tapered off, might reverse.

If the health of the population is one factor to characterize a society as poor or rich, then we can say that the state of health corresponds to the degree of economic development.

For example, we need to improve our understanding of the patterns that characterize illicit trafficking activities in order for Member States to be provided with the information needed to effectively combat such activities.

This will facilitate a diagnosis of the magnitude of the problem, to characterize the circumstances of the violence, and the profile of the victims and aggressors, as a contribution to the development of policies .

Recalling that the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction provides a framework for collaboration on the development of methodologies to systematically characterize, measure, assess and respond to natural disasters, including weather related disasters, hazards and vulnerabilities,

To characterize that delegation of powers as ambiguous is surprising, at the very least, unless that delegation of powers is understood as the outright renunciation by the President of the Republic of his constitutional prerogatives.

And it's a pool that's too difficult to fully characterize, even by modern methods, and the product looks brown, like this tar here on the left. A pure compound is shown on the right, for contrast.

The basis of the charges is not that they didn t predict the earthquake. As functionaries of the state, they had certain duties imposed by law to evaluate and characterize the risks that were present in L Aquila.

That's it, all the way down, all the way down, all the way down, and further, and further, and further, and further, and further and further.

Anglo Saxon financial institutions are known for their high dividend payout ratios. From a European perspective, the hunger for dividends and the emphasis on short term performance goals that characterize these institutions is both amazing and frightening.

Yet, given the chaos and paralysis that increasingly characterize Palestinian politics, that opportunity will go untaken. The rising power of Hamas, which openly proclaims its strategy of increasing terrorism and its goal of destroying Israel, reinforces that trend.

14. Agrees that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee should assess the effectiveness of existing space debris mitigation practices and the extent to which they are being implemented and that efforts to model and characterize the debris environment should continue

In health care terms, you could characterize this as whether or not somebody feels that they see a path towards better health, that they can actually see their way towards getting better health, and that's a very important notion.

High levels of violent crime in several major urban centres continue to characterize the region and, as a result, responding effectively to disaffected young people in large cities and the associated problem of criminal gangs remains a critical challenge.

Specifically, China needs prudential regulation that limits the use of leverage for asset purchases. Here, the country already has an advantage relatively high levels of equity and low mortgage to value ratios typically characterize real estate purchases by China s household sector.

Second, the transaction cost of using a foreign currency as a medium of exchange is inversely proportional to the extent to which that currency is used globally. Similar economies of scale characterize foreign investors use of a particular international financial center.

But other factors such as complex societies, ceremonies, spiritual beliefs, art, music, technology, and language also characterize modern human populations. Which traits are crucial to the definition of a modern human, and how far back can the classification be applied?

We're getting down further and further in scale.

Because the characterization of the conflict determines which rules of international humanitarian law, if any, will be applicable , the door is open for Governments to characterize the conflict in the way most favourable to them, potentially decreasing the applicability of international humanitarian law.

They are not a fundamental feature of the economy, and they need not characterize China s new normal. With the right strategy, the authorities can eliminate these distortions and allow the economy to reach its medium to high speed growth potential over the next decade.

Kenyatta, a member of the dominant Kikuyu ethnic group, says that he wants to heal the country s divisions, echoing the promise of his predecessor, Mwai Kibaki. There is a simple way to start combat the corruption and nepotism that characterize so much state employment.

Banks also provide critical services to governments and business, by providing direct access to global buyers of debt and equity, and by establishing large, consistent markets of buyers and sellers. Some characterize these activities as speculative trading, and even caricature financial markets as casinos.

Platitudes and placebos vapid calls for more job creation, fiscal restraint, reining in entitlement programs, and so forth will characterize America s election year. Neither side will step forward with a program for restructuring the economy and reducing the inequality that is sapping the country s strength.

And I started getting in further and further into the factories.

Noting further the necessity of further diversifying the economy of the Territory,

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Despite their hawkish approach to North Korea s nuclear threats, South Korean officials know that uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing remains only a distant possibility. As a result, they are approaching negotiations skeptically, rather than emphasizing the sense of mutual obligation that should characterize the alliance.

Is it entirely relative, or are there objective grounds to characterize a behavior or act as evil? Do all confrontations occur between legitimate parties with, say, one person s terrorist being another s freedom fighter or can we say that some fights really are between good and evil?

If it is deemed sensationalist to characterize this situation as terrifying, one may add that a much larger share of the population (estimated at close to 50 in the NIMH study) is affected by less severe forms of mental disease that only occasionally disturb their functionality.