have the earmarks of

A former senior official at the National Security Agency, which helped design Stuxnet and other hacking tools, told me that most cyberoffensive programs are designed to make the resulting damage look like an accident—whereas the size and frequency of these latest attacks have the earmarks of sabotage.

These are some of the most notable movies that the Academy ignored this year for top honors, even though they all have the earmarks of prestige work.

Others, however, have the earmarks of his humorous spirit in its more noteworthy manifestations.

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.

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