Sentence examples for as a defining element from inspiring English sources

In Europe, most rape legislation still involves force as a defining element.

Before I did that exercise, I never would have zeroed in on "performance" as a defining element of my identity.

The Liberal Democrats, unlike Labour, have consistently cited the Iraq war as a defining element in the election.

That stretch goes some way toward capturing a neighborhood whose residents cite harmonious diversity as a defining element.

If enacted, the rule could shutter hundreds of coal-fired power plants and stand as a defining element of Mr. Obama's legacy on fighting climate change.

During the next 10 years, Mr. Alcantara's music, chiefly for synthesizer, served as a defining element in Miss Muller's sleek, fast-paced style.

We're not so much inclined anymore but that is a defining element, just as another defining element of Norton that is beginning to fade is publishing works in psychoanalysis and psychiatry for the layman.

Of great-power competition as the defining element in statecraft, he writes, "That world no longer exists".

As for neoliberalism, Christophers, after considering the available options, plumps for privatisation itself as its defining element.

Ms. Merkel has repeatedly pointed to their common experience of having grown up under Communist rule as a defining and unifying element of their friendship.

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