Sentence examples for defining us from inspiring English sources
And by defining "us," nationalism also defines who is the "other," providing someone to blame who is coincidentally not the people enjoying power and wealth.
He returned a reporter's phone call at 11 30 p.m. on Thursday — he had just gotten the message, he said, and was worried about deadlines — and spent 30 minutes chatting animatedly about Mr. Obama, Hawaii and his own recent election, saying that he had based his campaign on "our diversity defining us rather than dividing us" — much the same message that Mr. Obama used in 2008.
"Instead of 'Fundamentalism' defining us as steadfast Bible believers, the term now carries overtones of radicalism and terrorism," he wrote.
"Everybody's defining us, but we need to define ourselves," said Elias El-Hage, founding co-producer and general manager of the festival.
Yet Google already acts as the overlord of our online profiles, defining us by a database of the best digital detritus it can find.
In History is Now, explains Jane, "we look back at the era we grew up in and the political moments that were defining us back then".
