Some groups characterized the seven-step application process as arbitrary and restrictive.

Many feminist groups and public officials have characterized the massacre as an anti-feminist attack that is representative of wider societal violence against women.

The group characterized its interim report as positive, but said, "Progress should not be mistaken for accomplishment."

The central groups often characterized these evaluative activities as services to the business units.

The Yugoslav government and some Western groups characterised the attack as a "crime".

This definition can be generalized to most groups characterized by the group definition discussed above.

Not surprisingly, each group characterizes its own patron apostle as the one who best understands "the gospel."

The same group further characterised it in 2000.

The group characterized itself as "an international resource center for cutting-edge research and information" and denied playing any role in media censorship.

Larger groups of brooches characterise the second, overlapping, phase c.