5 sentences with 'characterise'
Example sentences and phrases with the word characterise and other words derived from it.
• « While it is tempting to characterise European intellectual life before 1000 CE as part of a 'dark age', this was obviously no longer the case in the eleventh century. »
• « A simple way to characterise the growth of Dutch trading power was that the Netherlands replaced northern Italy as the heart of European trade itself after the Renaissance. »
• « Leonid Brezhnev would hold power until 1982, overseeing a long period of what historians often characterise as stagnation: the Soviet system, including its nominal adherence to Marxism-Leninism, would remain in place, but even the elites abandoned the idea that "real" communism was feasible. »
• « "Creationism is just low politics, you can't deprive people of the right to think," he said. Sharp comments like this characterise Gould, a scholar of the evolution of science and ideas. »