Sentence examples for defined it for from inspiring English sources

But there is no denying that the country's embrace of capitalism represents a striking reversal from the socialist austerity that defined it for much of its post-independence history.

Though nothing has been confirmed, I suspect his advancing years and decline in vitality led my father to conclude that life in its present form was not living as he had defined it for most of his 78 years, making suicide his most logical path for peace.

They are, at their heart, an unresolved argument about the world as the 43rd president defined it: for worse, for much worse, and then for better.

While CBS may still have the largest audience on the small screen, it's going to lose the one show that really defined it for millions of viewers.

It was the thriving middle class, which showed stirrings of a new political consciousness to counterbalance the narrower ambitions that have defined it for the last many years.

"While the American Revolution may have defined the era for history," she writes, "epidemic smallpox nevertheless defined it for many of the Americans who lived and died in that time".

The communications bill, which gets its second reading in the House of Commons tomorrow, will define it for the next decade at least.

"I'm not defining it for her; she's defining it for me," says Jeff Bewkes, HBO's chairman.

"And we'll let the economists define it for what it is".

Otherwise others, to his detriment, will be only too ready to define it for him".

"Organisations are having to take on the idea of resilience and define it for themselves.