Sentence examples for constituted the greater from inspiring English sources

Intermarriage became a necessity for the nobility and a means of increasing social status for the middle class, whose members constituted the greater part of the new theatregoing public.

On 29 July she sailed to the fleet's war station at Scapa Flow and began the patrols and training exercises that constituted the greater part of her service after the declaration of war on 4 August.

Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDH; 50) and alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs; 40) similarly constituted the greater part of the 111 DHO family.

The two decades from 1640 to 1660 constituted the great period of early Baptist growth.

By 1900, however, Marxism constituted the greatest challenge to the idealist tradition.

People of European ancestry have for long constituted the great majority of the population.

Clark became convinced in his later years that war constituted the greatest threat to human destiny.

The Sierra branches constituted the greatest number of Miwok individuals and had more than 100 villages at the time of European contact.

All the chief reformers believed that the great and extensively cultivated estates, especially in Andalusia and Extremadura, constituted the greatest bar to agricultural prosperity.

People of European ancestry have constituted the great majority of the population since the early days, although their proportion has slowly declined.

As we know from Joshua Reynolds Discoursess, if we take the trouble to read them - which practically no one does - the Royal Academy once had very pronounced views on what constituted the great and the good in art.