Sentence examples for definitively became from inspiring English sources

In the 18th century it definitively became part of Spain.

Bribery of foreign officials definitively became a crime in Germany only in 1998, when the country adopted the Anti-Bribery Convention estabyished by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The band played mostly in a tense, collective murmur until the end, when the pianist Jami Calabuig worked Cuban montuno figures into the bolero "Dos Gardenias," and the whole balance shifted: rhythm spoke up, and the music briefly and definitively became non-Andalusian.

In 2013, China, with its alien political system, could definitively become the motor that keeps the global economic show on the road, opening the gate to a Chinese century.

By the time I got home and dry, the world had definitively become a more terrifying, hateful place.

Strasbourg changed hands many times, going back to Louis XIV's time, until it became definitively French after 1945.

This is also the period in which Athens began to be an organized naval power: Salamis became definitively Athenian in the course of the 6th century (tradition credits its annexation to both Solon and Peisistratus), with consequences already noted.

After three or four months it was felt safe to return, and the party had nearly reached Chester-le-Street when their wagon became definitively stuck close to Durham, then a place with cultivated fields, but hardly a settlement, perhaps just an isolated farm.

It is only with the calcium challenge that the blunted calcitonin responsiveness became definitively apparent in our studies of Casr+/- mice.

Let's repeat that: You can become definitively better at tasting wine by drinking more wine.

The UK's only giant panda was artificially inseminated for the third time earlier this year and vets say she conceived a cub but do not know definitively whether or not she became pregnant.