A team at the University of Cambridge came up with the theory by applying a mathematical model to the various factors that characterise males and females.
A war of words between Galbraith and the UN - which has attempted to characterise the row as a "personality dispute" - has been gradually escalating since he was sacked last week.
A spokesman said: "to characterise our extremely safe, high quality, food production systems as factory farming is simply to use exaggeration and rhetoric in place of argument."
Thus did le siecle, a French republican newspaper, characterise the gathering wave of enthusiasm for Giuseppe Garibaldi.
A social structure represents some of the cultural aspects that characterise the relationships between the participants.
Wasting is used to characterise involuntary loss of body weight (ie muscle mass, "muscle wasting") and decline of muscle strength.
Larry Fink, chairman of a leading US investment management firm, BlackRock, said critics had been wrong to characterise the plan as a bail-out of Wall Street.
The smooth heart-stirring acceleration and effortless cruising power the characterise the SC430′s peerless sports performance are generated by a sophisticated 4.3-litre V8 engine.
