Sentence examples for determining the contours of from inspiring English sources
Adele and Olive never return and become a structuring absence for Caden, determining the contours of his life.
In Section 4 we develop this line of thought further, introducing a distinction between theories of secession that assume that only features of the state and the new state that would be formed from it by secession are relevant to determining the contours of the moral right to secede and theories that recognize that facts about regional and international institutions can be relevant.
As noted in subsection 2.3, some theories assume that only facts about the institutional resources of the remainder state and the new state created by secession are relevant to determining the contours of the moral right to secede and others recognize that facts about other institutions, whether regional or international can be relevant.
Why are not the interests that other states and their populations have in a stable order of states and in avoiding security crises of the sort that irredentist secessions can create (as sketched above) also relevant to determining the contours of the right to secede?
They cleared tropical forests and created plantations that today dominate the ecology of Southeast Asia; their labor arguably shaped the land as much as the land determined the contours of their own migrations.
"Three Standard Stoppages" (1999) refers to a famous piece by Marcel Duchamp of the same name in which Duchamp dropped a length of string on the floor or on a table, and then used the shape made by the string to determine the contours of pieces of wood that he made into a sculpture.
Yet if the plot of "Keck Road" verges on the predictable, Ms. Simpson nonetheless manages to invest it with an unusual measure of felt emotion, delineating the myriad small choices, random events and missed opportunities that can determine the contours of a life.
Billions of people rely on internet platforms to speak and access information in the networked public sphere, but the platforms are controlled by private companies, whose terms of service in large part determine the contours of free expression.
It may not be the Treaty of Versailles, or even the Camp David Accord, but on the 10th anniversary of its signing this month, the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative has been heralded as a transformative development that will determine the contours of the emerging international order.
Iltutmish made clear, however, to what extent Islam and Islamic law (Sharīʿah) could determine the contour of politics and culture in the overwhelmingly non-Muslim Indian environment.
