In the European Union, corruption seems to be Romania s designated signature.

For example, his opposition to governments authority to prohibit or regulate human behavior extended to licensing requirements for doctors and car drivers, as well as to anti drug laws, which he believed operated as a subsidy to organized crime.

Their distinguishing fea ture is that they can be bought for money.

Self criticism, even more than innovation, is a defining characteristic of the West.

We need the sort of courage that was the hallmark of Margaret Thatcher.

What was distinctive this time was that the new borrowing was concentrated in housing.

In a way, their rebellion is the hallmark of their Britishness or Frenchness.

Until now, populism has been the missing note in African political culture.

The defining characteristic of the countries on the Eastern and Southern borders of Europe is that they lack many attributes needed for membership.

Moreover, cultural pessimism is very American, extending back to the country s Puritan roots.

The pursuit of individual attainment is the hallmark of our time, eclipsing the collective dimension of human destiny.

What distinguishes such leaders, whatever the political context, is that they understand what the public wants.

The practice of women wearing full face veils in northern India is not a trademark of any particular religion.

Supporters of Europe s social model claim that what distinguishes it is the importance placed on social cohesion.

But what distinguishes Hillary Clinton from Madeleine Albright or Condoleezza Rice is where she was willing to go for her education.

WASHINGTON, DC The financial crisis that began in 2007 has been persistently marked by muddled thinking and haphazard policymaking.

Indeed, a hallmark of the Bush administration s violations of civil liberties is that many involve efforts to evade judicial review.

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Feathers are peculiar to birds.

Recent bestsellers suggest that religious faith is really a sign of backwardness, the mark of primitives stuck in the dark ages who are yet to catch up with scientific reason.

The dreams from his father were at an end, and he was left, as he only slowly realized, with the themeless pragmatism that has become the hallmark of his administration.

Feathers are a distinguishing feature of birds.

The dreams from his father were at an end, and he was left, as he only slowly realized, with the themeless pragmatism that has become the hallmark of his administration.

What is so special about these protests is the fact that they have not been centrally coordinated by student unions but have been organized entirely bottom up, with the help of online social media.

A striking feature of the protests has been the distance that the demonstrators have put between themselves and existing political parties, including the Republican People s Party (CHP), the largest force in the center left secular opposition.

For while the moral hazard argument emphasizes the orthodox commandment Thou shall not intervene,'' the crucial feature of globalization hazard is market failure .

What sets it apart the high light gathering capacity.

Woman's intuition is clearly a valuable trait.

The aurora is a phenomenon characteristic of the polar regions.

It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature.

A distinctive feature of the Chinese growth order is that local governments compete actively against each other for jobs, revenue, investment, and access to fiscal and human resources.

George Orwell s vision of 1984 could hardly have been more wrong, because the hallmark of modern technology is not Big Brother, but decentralization.

The lake s ecosystem formed thanks to the clean and incredibly cold water (typically 10 ) and is noted for its thickets of freshwater sponges, creating something that resembles the reefs of the Carribean.

According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synthpop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox.

The eurozone, for example, is a blur.

But Friedman s consistent anti statism also led him to embrace positions that ran afoul of many conservatives political sensibilities, underscoring the intellectual honesty that was the hallmark of his career.

These groups seem to forget that peaceful protests are a hallmark of democratic, developed nations, and that avoiding some amount of traffic disruption is not more important than citizens civil rights.

Indeed, Putin s signature characteristic is to be all men for all Russia s people.

And authenticity is a major part of my serious nonsense.

This is perhaps the most enduring feature of American power.

The main feature of this scheme is still ambiguous.

Such remains America s democratic ethos.

Ninety two percent of Malagasy citizens live below the poverty line.

The free trade regime of the liberal period was retained during this period indeed it was deepened by the various rounds of global trade liberalization but the dominant thrust was the creation of a generous welfare state.

The failure in Iraq, the risk of an Iraqization of Afghanistan, and Russia s newfound assertiveness have moved America from the arrogant indifference that characterized most of Bush s presidency to a rediscovery of the Alliance s value.