"I don't look at this moment as the defining end to my relationship with the game of basketball,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Agha Saeed,a California State University political scientist and founder of the Pakistan American National Alliance, an organization of six Pakistani-American groups, called the planned demonstration sha defining moment for Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

has been a defining trait of politics since in 1991."

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

"But above all,your visit at this pivotal moment in history speaks to the opportunity before us to build the relationship between our nations born in the last century into one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"The fight against terrorists and violent extremists has been returned to its right and proper place -no longer defining, indeed,distorting, our entire national security and foreign policy, but rather serving as a vital part of those larger policies,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06