Sentence examples for been allowed to define from inspiring English sources

If that way of campaigning had been allowed to define Euroscepticism, we would have lost catastrophically – and quite rightly and deservedly.

It has always seemed to me that the intolerant blowhards, like Pat Robertson, have been allowed to define the evangelical movement, which is in fact far broader than them.

Such nasty outbursts could be dismissed as so much ridiculous hysteria, were it not for the fact that the anti-abortion lobby, with its scare tactics, "prayer vigils" and wild accusations, has effectively been allowed to define the situation in Ireland, shifting the entire discourse on to moral grounds.

But Ryan has mostly been allowed to "define" himself this week.

We live in an era where No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have been allowed to define public schools as failures, when, in fact, they still offer the best chance for children who were not born with silver spoons in their mouths to climb the ladder to success.

Despised and mocked around the world, and here at home, his history-making disapproval rating has impacted his legacy because his lack of command over the media leads to the tidal wave of speculation and pontification by talking heads and political "experts" who have been allowed to define his presidency to mean pretty much whatever they think it means.

Consequently, Mr. Waxman argued, Congress should be allowed to define political advertising according to current political standards, and the bill did so.

"Whenever a covert agency is allowed to define the national interest, it ends up with more power than intended".

It can no longer be the case that only white voices are allowed to define what is and isn't racist.

The fact that some blustery old white men like to throw the odd quote from Horace into their after-dinner speeches shouldn't be allowed to define for everyone what knowing Latin is or can be".

Under the proposal, which is described in a draft letter to state health officials, states would be allowed to define an "unborn child" as eligible for medical coverage under the federal Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP.