Viewed against such a backdrop, there is creeping anxiety about the future of our nation, characterised as it is by deep communal divisions and a disturbingly high rate of out-migration of our skilled people. Mahendra Chaudhry
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. Karl Jaspers
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. Wilhelm Wundt
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems. Anthony Giddens
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole. Arnold J. Toynbee
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity." Herbert Marcuse