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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Humiliation, torture and murder, to an obscene degree, characterise the region's history.
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In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers.
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Open mountain heights and gently sloping valleys characterise the mid-section reaching nearly 1500 metres in the High Feldberg.
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Our concern is particularly with the processes which drive and characterise those relationships.
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The power of the officials stems from their understanding the processes and procedures that characterise the bureaucratic organisation.
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Unix Expo delivered what it said it would, counting a record 28,722 attendees and characterising them as primarily corporate buyers.
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Very roughly we can characterise perhaps four main axes to this debate.
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We can characterise this as rule by the non-elected with power in the hands of a bureaucratic elite.