It defined their privileges and shaped their culture, their religion and even their personalities.
To what extent is it defined by having a body of a particular shape, or by cultural factors?
However, for some inexplicable reason that challenges the agency's core, it defined leadership in an entirely unrecognizable way.
What that law really did was it defined all kinds of simple crimes.
It defined two philosophies of political and economic governance in a technological age.
It defined the prerogatives of both the next president and the ruling military after Egypt's supreme court dissolved the elected parliament - dominated by Islamists - last week.
Had it defined itself as a nutrition provider rather than a milk producer, the dairy industry could have shifted its focus from production to marketing.
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Ronald Reagan's optimism defined his character and it defined his presidency.
In January, it announced Samsung For Enterprise (SAFE), which it defined as a set of enterprise solutions that will provide the necessary security and feature enhancements to make mobile solutions suitable for business.
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It defined the main unit of societal commerce.
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When it is defined by satisfaction, it is unlikely to cause good performance.
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If one is looking for feminine equality in Islam in the way it is defined by liberals, it will be a waste of time because the Koranic view of woman as the bedrock of humanity is more sublime and dignified.
It is defined by gravity because that is the only way that it interacts it has no electric charge, and does not feel the strong and weak forces that bind atomic nuclei together.
When it is defined by whether individuals put forth extra effort, from a performance point of view it is a performance positive.
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In other cases, it is defined as putting forth extra effort (i.e. as motivation).
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It is defined as the difference between all primary incomes receivable and payable by resident units.
It has since become such a part of popular parlance that it is defined in the Urban Dictionary.
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The strength of the study is that it examines meticulously Shariah as law as it is defined and interpreted by Shariah authorities themselves.
Once it has defined minimal coverage, the government should step aside.
For example, he told -- he says that he told his aides, quote, "I never had sex with her" as it was defined in his mind.
It also defined corporate culture, from how employees connected with consumers to the way companies structured knowledge sharing, redefined by continues technological innovation and The Internet Revolution.
It is hard to make a definitive statement about the importance of engagement because the way it is defined and measured in surveys differs greatly from one situation to another.
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Fourth, it offers defined benefits, which are preferable to Mr Feldstein's partially defined contributions in that they greatly reduce the risk to participants and prevent differential pensions for equal contributions.
It was defined by Yiddish, by Jewish newspapers, by the Farband, which provided such services as burial plans for families of immigrants, by left-wing politics and by dowdy, quixotic Camp Kinderwelt.
Nonetheless, it still defined the dollar as a fixed weight of gold, and for 20 years supported economic results for all Americans that were far superior to those produced by the paper dollar system of the past 42 years.
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She also says that each month the military issues permits for thousands of Palestinians to enter Israel from Gaza, subject to security checks, and that it has defined participation in events sponsored by the Palestinian Authority, like the Bethlehem marathon, as justification for travel.
Responding to claims that a benefits cap would lead to families being made homeless, Mr. Duncan Smith insisted that the definition of homelessness that is "bandied around" is "very misleading for the public" because it is defined in the sense that children have to share rooms and not that people will not have a home to go to.
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