Indeed, some analysts characterized this week's upward move by equities as primarily technical in nature.

Military analysts here characterized the attack as an almost perfect operation and one of the most damaging guerrilla raids in the seven-year-old war.

But analysts characterized the increase as an aberrant blip caused largely by a sharp increase in tobacco and commercial aircraft prices.

Given that, opposition leaders and some independent analysts have characterized the Government's legal arguments as tactics to protect inappropriate transactions from scrutiny.

His second, and the more difficult, will be to mend what some analysts have characterized as a rift between the firm's consulting and auditing partners.

The price for National Computer Systems was 50 times annual profits, which analysts have also generally characterized as top dollar.

Military analysts characterized Mr. Montesinos's landing here as a direct challenge to the president's authority by the military.

Some analysts concede its merits, but characterize it as either unaffordable or politically unrealistic.

Many political analysts also characterized Mr. Corzine's ads as exaggerations.

Most analysts characterize present Sino-American relations as being complex and multi-faceted.