Over the years, the town centre has developed distinct characteristics on either side of the railway line.

The Palace is a set of three different buildings with distinct characteristics and time periods.

The book is a history of the novel as a form, and an investigation into its distinct characteristics.

While these mechanisms have distinct characteristics, they often occur simultaneously in the same system.

Some of the people who live in the mountains today retain distinct cultural characteristics.

Thus they were a people apart from all others, with distinct racial characteristics.

Despite growing the same grapes, each region has their own distinct characteristics.

The leather has the same, individual, distinct characteristics of the human fingerprint.

Each of these mountain ranges is marked by distinct characteristics.

Each region demonstrates its own historical influences and distinct characteristics.