Sentence examples for ends up defining from inspiring English sources

It is entirely possible that this so-called "public option" could end up as the Democratic equivalent of Social Security privatization, an ambitious effort whose failure ends up defining one of the nation's ideological borders.

It's often said it's a struggle that actually ends up defining a person.

Whichever road ends up defining the future, Americans have to start making some rather large cognitive adjustments.

Or like most of the couples in America, straight or gay, who've been together for a while, and know that sex is the one aspect of the relationship that ends up defining it the least.

Diplomatic friendship is converted into complicity and the comrades end up defining the nature of those who have chosen their company.

These things end up defining your character and will, in many ways, decide his ultimate legacy in the world.

All of this suggests it's easier to end up defined as a member of a gang if you're black, and Darel's deportation is likely best explained in this context.

Bad marketer Bowie − Cross-platform reinventions made it confusing to keep track of core brand − Cross-Googling problem with choice of stage name (brings up hits about knives – dubiously fashionable product) − Defined an era, but ended up defined by that era, delimiting brand life (Bowie=70s. See also: Rubik's Cube = 80s).

"Just one photo could end up defining who you are for a long time".

But the toughest times end up defining you.

That's how musicians end up defining an era of fashion.