Sentence examples for greatest determinant from inspiring English sources

A mother's level of reading skill is unequivocally the greatest determinant of her child's academic success.

That's because the return of the stock market itself is the greatest determinant of the typical equity fund's return, he said.

"I'd always felt that the number of base runners was the single greatest determinant of pitcher performance," Okrent said.

It is hardly surprising that political world view is by far the greatest determinant of attitudes to climate change, especially in the US where three times more Republicans than Democrats believe that "too much fuss is made about global warming".

This is especially true of the energy industry — the Bush Administration's finishing school — in which the greatest determinant of a company's annual performance is a price more or less fixed in Vienna by a cabal of sheikhs.

But David Olson, a political scientist at the University of Washington, reckons that party affiliation is the single greatest determinant of how the state's legislators vote on bills that come before them.

One of the greatest determinants of a person's health is their income.

As you might expect, Park Avenue medians contain fewer gar-bage cans (the greatest determinants of ant variety and abundance) and less complex flora; they are more manicured, less riotous.

In an article written in my online publication, one author asked of modern Holocaust education: "Who defines themselves by a horrific genocide?" Yet for many American Jews, the Holocaust and other tragedies are sometimes the greatest determinants of their Jewish identities.

I learned in law school, and it is still true today, that it is the color of the victim, not the perpetrator, that is the one of the greatest determinants in criminal sentencing.

For example, 6-wk and baseline pain were the greatest determinants of 12-wk pain (β = 0.66 and 0.41, respectively).