Sentence examples for defined long ago from inspiring English sources

The essential itinerary for Costa Rica was defined long ago: Manuel Antonio for the beach, Monteverde for cloud forest, Tortuguero for turtles, and Arenal volcano for outdoor adventure.

The ideal of multiculturalism was defined long ago, in 1966, by the then home secretary, Roy Jenkins, when he said that integration did not mean "the loss, by immigrants, of their own national characteristics and culture".

Ectopic opening of the common bile duct into the duodenal bulb (EO-CBD-DB) is a rare entity that was defined long ago.

But neither side should forget that the Gospel, as defined by evangelicals long ago, offered a message of liberty in place of legalism, and never belonged to those who excluded and condemned.

The depth of this sentiment long ago defined the language in which the anti-EU argument is now always conducted.

(a rosy lip with defined eyes that not long ago helped steel one Fortune 500 executive at 5 a.m. before ringing an opening bell on the stock exchange).

The DPJ won because Mr Ozawa insisted on throwing out all the modernising policy which not long ago defined the DPJ.

Devolution has created a more distinct Welsh politics, too, and allowed Northern Ireland's factions, not long ago defined only by tribalism and violence, to engage in humdrum haggling over water rates and grammar schools.

He had gathered together an alarming collection of quotations to prove it, too: Fox complaining about the useful laws that long ago defined the secular state; Fox criticizing the lay character of public education; Fox saying he wants the schools to teach religious values, meaning Catholic values.

A central question for Eilis Lacey in "Brooklyn" is: Do you relinquish whatever identity you've built to collapse back into (what at least seems) the warm embrace of family and small town that long ago defined you as so much less?

Although this is a poorly defined phrase, it was long ago recognized that serious illness saps one's spiritual resources as well as one's physical strength so that one is not able to meet the crisis of mortal danger with all one's powers.