CHARACTERIZING New York City in a phrase or a sentence is usually the activity of people who don't live here.

Can you characterize the situation on the ground in Iraq now?

Board of Education officials do not characterize the situation in quite those terms.

They did not want to characterize him one way or another.

In 1891, he was the first to characterize dead space.

But I'm not going to characterize their position on this.

If this is so, how are we to characterize the other two?

The town was not always characterized in this way though.

A. I would not characterize it that way at all.

His coming is characterized by a number of physical events.

Among other things, he characterized the village as being very run down.

Hard work characterized village life for both men and women.

Until the year 1874 the collection was characterized by general science.

He characterized God as the living moral order of the world.

It was created during an age characterized by a strong sense of history.

Therefore these forces are not characterized by a force field.

"They have created a situation where I will be known and characterized this way for the rest of my life."

"But it's not something I would characterize as a drug experience."

Or how would - what's a good way to characterize it?

These are also the characters who most need to be characterized.

How might you characterize the struggle between these two strong women?

"This campaign probably could be characterized as a bit more old school," he added.

"If the fuel changes, you go to something less well characterized."

The Bush administration has not characterized the conflict as a civil war.

Some 24 percent of black adults now characterize themselves that way.

A. I'm not going to characterize my conversation with him.