It was a group defined by a mood; it was not a clique.
They firmly identify as cultural Afrikaners – a group defined by a unique history, language and destiny – set apart from the rest of South Africa.
Students should discuss their understanding of the poem within their group to create a list of common interpretations, then as a group, define the theme of the poem.
In Hamas, a group defined by its extreme positions, Dr. Rantisi is known as the leader who makes the most vitriolic statements and opposes any compromise with Israel.
The Neognathae -- a group defined on the basis of palate structure, with a mobile palate and some bones reduced -- contains the vast majority of living birds.
Women in science and technology are just like men in science and technology in that we are a group defined by our outsized curiosity.
"To the extent Seattle is read to require the Court to determine and declare which political policies serve the 'interest' of a group defined in racial terms, that rationale was unnecessary to the decision in Seattle," Kennedy wrote.
The illiberalism of these new radicals is mirrored among the new reactionaries, a group defined by skepticism of democracy and egalitarianism, admiration for more hierarchical orders, and a willingness to overthrow the Western status quo.
"Mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race," she says.
If Paul Keleher QC (Letters, 16 December) had read the Lords judgment to which he refers with rather more care, he would have noted that, having defined an ethnic group in terms of a number of characteristics, it went on to add: "a group defined by reference to enough of these characteristics would be capable of including converts, for example, people who marry into the group".
