Although it does receive some state money, the university is privately chartered and retains characteristics of a private institution.

The Tibetan breeds in their pure form do retain individual characteristics and heritage, however.

It retained tropical characteristics for less than one day before dissipating, but still brought heavy levels of rainfall to the region.

How could man as a species progress when there was greater survival value in retaining primitive characteristics?

Alberto was able to retain tropical characteristics at an unusually high latitude, up to 53˚N.

Although Biya made some efforts to open up the political environment, his regime still retains clear authoritarian characteristics.

Some of the people who live in the mountains today retain distinct cultural characteristics.

It is found from his observations that the language has retained dominant characteristics of Magadhi.

The hurricane retained annular characteristics for about 48 hours before moving over cooler water.