Because of differences in their construction, microphones have their own characteristic responses to sound.

Different types of explosives produce characteristic responses in the signals which are then picked up by the detector.

But both underscore realities for President Hussein that have prompted a characteristic response.

Each is activated by certain receptors, which, in turn, can stimulate specific and characteristic responses.

Only the normal skin would react with a characteristic erythematous response.

There is a very characteristic right-wing, patriotic response which says we aren't really declining, we've just lost our will.

Once upon a time, so the story runs in these characteristic responses to the summer riots of 1981, violence and disorder were unknown in Britain.

In regards to behavioral reactions to victimization, research has identified two categories of characteristic responses.

His characteristic response to the unbearable is to make a joke of it.

It is hoped that this will gradually lessen the passivity which has been a characteristic response of some women to multiple loss.