Whatever the truth behind this, the young king was forced to depend heavily on his Ptolemaic support and even struck portraits with the characteristic features of king Ptolemy I.

Historians show that every real conspiracy has had at least four characteristic features: groups, not isolated individuals ; illegal or sinister aims, not ones that would benefit society as a whole ; orchestrated acts, not a series of spontaneous and haphazard ones ; and secret planning, not public discussion.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

Nevertheless, correlation of the amplitude elicited and ratio of the responder cells compared to the total number are also characteristic features of the chemotactic signaling.

Their uniforms varied greatly, lacking the characteristic features of hussar or lancer regiments.

Though evincing many features characteristic of oral poetry, the Iliad and Odyssey were at some point committed to writing.

Diseases of the kidney are diverse, but individuals with kidney disease frequently display characteristic clinical features.

The rhyme books differ in some details, but overall show many of the features characteristic of modern Mandarin dialects, such as the reduction and disappearance of final plosives and the reorganization of the Middle Chinese tones.

Central to evolutionary theory is that all biological organisms undergo changes in their anatomical features and their characteristic behaviour patterns.

According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: " a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people ;" " a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people "; " a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation "; " a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

One of the features of standard Croatian language and in common with several languages such as Czech, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Tamil, Turkish is word coinage using roots or elements perceived as being characteristic or unique to the speech of the community.

" Chauvel's leadership ," wrote Henry Gullett, " was distinguished by the rapidity with which he summed up the very obscure Turkish position in the early morning, and by his judgement and characteristic patience in keeping so much of his force in reserve until the fight developed sufficiently to ensure its most profitable employment.

Türbe is the Turkish word for " tomb ", and for the characteristic mausoleums, often relatively small, of Ottoman royalty and notables.

The first fully Rococo structure erected at the Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, was the " Turkish Tent " that was still a novelty in 1744 ; " this fantastic structure introduced that element of frivolous impermanence which became so characteristic of Vauxhall ," David Coke has remarked.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

Responses such as `` rope with a loop in it '', and `` two pieces of rope '', were quite characteristic.

As such Anglicanism was, from the outset, a movement with an explicitly episcopal polity, a characteristic which has been vital in maintaining the unity of the Communion by conveying the episcopate's role in manifesting visible catholicity and ecumenism.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

This results in a characteristic type of irregular, uncoordinated movement that can manifest itself in many possible ways, such as asthenia, asynergy, delayed reaction time, and dyschronometria.

Although when burned, amber does give off a characteristic " pinewood " fragrance, modern products, such as perfume, do not normally use actual amber.

As with those who engage other activities such as singing or running, the term may apply broadly to anyone who engages in it even briefly, or be more narrowly limited to those for whom it is a vocation, habit or characteristic practice.

In other words it must both be listed and contain a characteristic such as being explosive, flammable, toxic, or corrosive.

The simplification of texture made such instrumental detail more important, and also made the use of characteristic rhythms, such as attention-getting opening fanfares, the funeral march rhythm, or the minuet genre, more important in establishing and unifying the tone of a single movement.

It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have.

One important characteristic of many normative moral theories such as consequentialism is the ability to produce practical moral judgements.

Kenneth Minogue criticized Pratto's work, saying " It is characteristic of the conservative temperament to value established identities, to praise habit and to respect prejudice, not because it is irrational, but because such things anchor the darting impulses of human beings in solidities of custom which we do not often begin to value until we are already losing them.

Upham shows a balanced and complicated view of Cotton Mather such as this first mention: " One of Cotton Mather's most characteristic productions is the tribute to his venerated master.

They maintain that, to determine such families, five criteria should be taken into account, in particular: the historical background, the characteristic way of thought, the different institutions, the recognized sources of law, and the dominant ideology.

Each element or molecule displays a characteristic set of spectral lines, such as the hydrogen spectral series.

Provided the sample size is adequate, the risks associated with random allocation ( such as failing to obtain a representative sample in a survey, or having a serious imbalance in a key characteristic between a treatment group and a control group ) are calculable and hence can be managed down to an acceptable level.

Very different mathematical treatments apply to the design of filters termed infinite impulse response ( IIR ) filters, characteristic of mechanical and analog electronics systems, and finite impulse response ( FIR ) filters, which can be implemented by discrete time systems such as computers ( then termed digital signal processing ).

The painting is structured with Brown's characteristic linear energy, and emphasis on apparently grotesque and banal details, such as the cabbages hanging from the ship's side.

A sine wave propagating through such a ring towards the reader distorts the ring in a characteristic, rhythmic fashion ( animated image to the right ).

Conservative scholars consider internal evidences, such as the lack of the mention of the destruction of the Temple and a number of passages that they consider characteristic of an eyewitness, sufficient evidence that the gospel was composed before 100 and perhaps as early as 50 – 70: in the 1970s, scholars Leon Morris and John A. T. Robinson independently suggested earlier dates for the gospel's composition.

It is characteristic of early literature that the evolution of the thought, or the grammatical form of the sentence, is guided by the structure of the verse ; and the correspondence which consequently obtains between the rhythm and the syntax — the thought being given out in lengths, as it were, and these again divided by tolerably uniform pauses — produces a swift flowing movement such as is rarely found when periods are constructed without direct reference to the metre.

The characteristic profile of such a harpsichord is more elongated than a modern piano, with a sharper curve to the bentside.

Briefly, the basefield has to contain an ordered subfield ( in order for non-negativity to make sense ) and therefore has to have characteristic equal to 0 ( since any ordered field has to have such characteristic ).

Another major characteristic of some variants of Newfoundland English is adding the letter ' h ' to words that begin with vowel sounds, or removing ' h ' from words that begin with it.

The characteristic features of the Turkic languages are vowel harmony, extensive agglutination by means of suffixes and other affixes, and lack of noun classes or grammatical gender.

It consists of the Swedish Chef, who speaks mock Swedish, semi-comprehensible gibberish which parodies the characteristic vowel sounds and intonation of Swedish.

Also the Hebrew shva is sometimes represented by the upside-down ə symbol for schwa, a misleading transliteration, since the schwa vowel is not representative of modern Hebrew pronunciation of shva and is not characteristic of earlier pronunciations either ( see Tiberian vocalization → Mobile Shwa ).

Giveaway features include the characteristic pronunciation of the diphthong in words like " cow ", which is more closed and rounded than in Received Pronunciation or General American ; the pronunciation of the strut vowel ( again, more closed than the RP or GenAm version, though not as closed as in the Creole ); semi-rhoticity, i. e. the dropping of the "- r " in words like " water " ( at the end of unstressed syllables ) and " market " ( before a consonant ); but not in words like " car " or " dare " ( stressed syllables at the end of the word ).

A characteristic sound change ( a phonemic split ) occurred in the majority of East Asian and Southeast Asian languages, typically happening c. 1000 – 1500 AD, in which a former distinction between voiced and unvoiced consonants at the beginning of a syllable was lost, in the process transferring the former voicing distinction onto the syllabic nucleus ( i. e. the following vowel ).

The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.

The defining characteristic of a near-close vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted.

The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned two-thirds of the way from a close vowel to a mid vowel.

The defining characteristic of a mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned mid-way between an open vowel and a close vowel.

The defining characteristic of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned two-thirds of the way from an open vowel to a mid vowel.

The defining characteristic of a near-open vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to an open vowel, but slightly more constricted.

The defining characteristic of a front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far in front as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.

The defining characteristic of a near-front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as in a front vowel, but slightly further back in the mouth.

The defining characteristic of a central vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.