It seems to me blindingly obvious that the federal government can't discriminate between different kinds of marriages when several states have defined them as equal.
It defined them as performance bonuses and profits from stock sales.
The first law about the Ainu that was passed, in 1899, defined them as aborigines in need of assimilation.
"The governor defined them as overspending addicts during the campaign, and as overspending addicts they've showed themselves as unable to reform".
Still, tracking what you actually spend on alcohol or caffeine can illuminate financial priorities — whether you've defined them as such or not.
H.L. Mencken defined them as: The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Initially, the Senate bill's discussions of derivatives platforms defined them as "trading" facilities, a term of art from the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
Historically, he said, when black people were prohibited from meeting in groups, they did so anyway "out of the eyesight and earshot of those who defined them as less than human".
Moreover, the number of such neighborhoods -- the study defined them as census tracts with at least 40percentt of residents below the poverty level -- around the country declined by more than a quarter.
"They want to keep this company in their hands and maintain the family farming way of life that has defined them as people," said Sherwood J. Johnson, the company's chairman.
The agency's efforts to regulate "natural remedies" were hobbled by the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which defined them as dietary supplements and put them in a category somewhere between food and drugs.
