have the earmarks of

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The minister who is to be impeached, the wise servants who are to gain office, the attack on corruption, the spirited foreign policy—all these have the earmarks of a platform rather than of a philosophy.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

Perhaps we can think up another plan that will have the earmarks of success about it.”

From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Webster, Frank V.

Emotions vividly displayed are, as already pointed out in connection with sympathy, readily duplicated in others, and the ardors of the enthusiast are, when they have the earmarks of sincerity, contagious.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

The party insists she planted walnuts from a typical English walnut tree, but the trees from these nuts, of which there are a number bearing small nuts, certainly have the earmarks of the butternut.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association

He would have said that Bud did not have the "earmarks" of an Idaho rider.

From Cow-Country by Bower, B. M.