Sentence examples for ceased to define from inspiring English sources

The San Francisco snub has driven him since, but it has long ceased to define him, especially since winning the Super Bowl two seasons ago and becoming the league's most valuable player in 2011.

In part because classical languages were a foundation of schooling well into the 20th century, the editors write, "one cannot understand the history of the post-classical world without constant reference to the classical cultures by which it has never ceased to define itself ­— in assent and dissent, in defiance and imitation, in veneration and in willed but futile forgetfulness".

Cease to define yourself through the eyes of others.

The explanation for this paradox is that politics, for the voters who back Ukip, has ceased to be defined primarily as a battle for economic resources.

Camus offers us a way of abandoning our pointless quest for "oneness" with ourselves, but carrying on nevertheless, fighting: For some ill-defined moral justice, even though we have ceased to be able to define it.

What kind of person or persons would stand in for ISIS given that it's such a multinational affair in terms of those who [count] among its membership?" Given the complexities of today's geopolitics it's conceivable that villains will cease to be defined primarily by their nationality.

The RI said it had taken the decision because its "requirement for the functions of the role of director as currently defined has ceased to exist".

By the 1970s Dutch politics, like Dutch society in general, had largely ceased to practice what was strictly defined as pillarization.

On Saturday, the trustees who oversee the RI released a statement explaining the apparent cost-saving move, saying it came after a recent review of the body's governance led them to conclude that "the requirement for the functions of the role of Director as currently defined has ceased to exist".

It is unclear when the Qedarites ceased to exist as a separately defined confederation or people.

He got most worried when a concept was being extended to new situations where the familiar operations defining the concept ceased to be applicable.