To his delight, the extracted tissue thrived and grew, and many of the cells in the resulting culture did indeed contain proteins known to be characteristic of neural stem cells.
At this time of year, Mr. Jefferson would close his correspondence in words dry enough to be characteristic of him, yet somehow convivial enough to be thinkable in the mouth of Mr. Pickwick.
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That combination seems to be characteristic of crowdsourcing.
What could be a characteristic of a company becomes a characteristic of a sector.
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"Perseverance in struggle and the courage to be were characteristic of Margaret Thatcher, " the bishop said.
If so, that would be more characteristic of a bear market rally rather than a new once-in-a-lifetime bull market.
The revolt of this class, he thinks, could be the defining characteristic of the election, counting more even than the rise of the (also mostly white, but mostly more affluent) tea-party movement.
It is an interesting triple "coincidence, " which probably evolved over time, that our eyes are most sensitive to yellow-green light, which happens to be the characteristic color of sunlight as well as the color that can most easily be transmitted through the Earth's atmosphere.
It describes the stark contrast between what is believed to be an important characteristic of great leaders humility and the demeanor of this president.
For Bush, this would be an act of characteristic principle and courage.
Variation in one characteristic must be independent of variation in other characteristics.
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Like the 2010 and the yet to be released 2012, the overriding characteristic of the vintage is a very small crop.
And Friends of the Earth referred to my speech on the environment as compelling, the most compelling made by a Conservative for a long time and I want my party to be seen like that, obsessed about those issues and we will be, that's the characteristic of my leadership.
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"Yet, on reflection, I am sure that many will recognise it to be a decision of great courage and characteristic clarity of mind and action, " he said.
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In the three days of arguments, six lawyers will make their case in what are expected to be free-wheeling question-and-answer sessions characteristic of oral arguments.
Charitable fraudsters tend to be recidivists that, apparently due to a lack of scrutiny characteristic of these organizations, escape detection.
Also, the analysis of samples is a powerful tool to identify any agent that may be present, even if in small concentrations, or of characteristic degradation products that would demonstrate its past presence.
Any characteristic that can help us identify followers of radical Islam would be critical to determining who should be denied a visa, who should be put on the no-fly list and who should be subjected to a secondary inspection at the airport.
The Anthropocene's equivalent of iridium is nitrogen - although there will be other candidates (such as heavy metals, and carbon isotope ratios characteristic of fossil fuel emissions) for geochemists of the far future to identify as the chemical signature of the new epoch's dawn.
In doing so, they lost track of the most essential characteristic of a large-scale energy storage system: it must be cheap.
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As early as the 1920s, American film producers commissioned the Seeberger brothers to take photographs of what they regarded as characteristic Parisian scenes which could then be replicated on Hollywood sets.
Sexual selection emphasises the development of characteristics that demonstrate in a way that cannot be faked just how fit that characteristic's possessor is to father (or mother) another individual's offspring.
Soil samples can be taken in which you can look for either residue of a chemical agent or the product's characteristic of when an agent degrades.
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