Sentence examples for determinative from inspiring English sources

Still, other families are important to Rubio, who cites a "landmark study" that found that, "More than racial segregation, more than education, more than inequality, the number of single parents in a community is most determinative of upward mobility".

The story moves gracefully back and forth from her deathbed, surrounded by children, neighbours and nurse, to her past and particularly to a determinative weekend love affair.

Such sudden transitions from juvenile to adult form, referred to as phase change, seem to depend not on slow shifts in the apex but on some determinative event or correlated group of events.

Because hardness is a highly diagnostic property in mineral identification, most determinative tables use relative hardness as a sorting parameter.

The development of American cultural anthropology between the two World Wars and into the decade of the 1960s was significantly shaped by anthropological linguist Edward Sapir, who demonstrated the determinative effect of language on culture and worldview and who argued that culture is largely psychological.

Luther's Small Catechism also enjoys official status in all Lutheran churches and has been determinative for most Lutheran preaching and instruction.

In this fateful drama, considerations of culture and politics are likely to play a more determinative role than any choice of economic instrumentalities.

For Arminius, God's will as unceasing love was the determinative initiator and arbiter of human destiny.

Since World War II the influence of folk song upon popular song has not just been great; it has been determinative.

Wilson would have agreed; as one of the United States' most distinguished historians, he had crafted an immensely influential interpretation of determinative political clout and might.

They were the ones tweaking these things, and it was their taste that was determinative".