Countries have always historically been defined primarily by their inhabitants.
But are boys that age really defined primarily by their sexual urges?
Teaching had become defined primarily as a matter of pedagogical technique, rather than of imparting knowledge..
Perhaps it was the book's thought-provoking contention that Christians should not be defined primarily by what they believe.
PERCY and O'Connor were the more conventionally literary, in the sense that their careers were defined primarily by their fiction.
The new design is not mandatory; the city imposes requirements defined primarily by safety.
Teaching had become defined primarily as a matter of pedagogical technique, rather than of imparting knowledge.
Some have indeed argued that the brands of the future will be defined primarily by the fluency and intuitiveness of the interactions consumers have with them.
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.
In the late 1990s the curator Thelma Golden and the artist Glenn Ligon got together and invented "Post-Black," a movement of sorts for black artists who didn't want their work or themselves to be defined primarily in racial terms.
Although Mr. Shorter and Mr. Pastorius wrote for the band, Mr. Zawinul was its principal composer, and Weather Report came to be defined primarily by the wide range of sounds and textures he created on synthesizers and other electric keyboards.
