Sentence examples for not to define from inspiring English sources

"I would be careful not to define the incident as a mishap," he said.

"To give confidence but not to define the personality," he said.

Many in the Senate have been careful not to define the parameters of the solution.

"I hope not to define myself by suffering," he told me.

"It is really important not to define me by a narrow window of one thing that I do," she said.

The role of a national theatre is not to define that, but to throw open questions – to undefine it".

It is important not to define your future actions based on a small number of negative people.

But isn't her aim the opposite of Galton's -- not to define and categorize but to blur and upset categories?

Rice's shortcoming has been, more often than not, to define success in narrowly personal terms, which is why she prostrated herself before Bush.

That's why it's so important not to define your friend's behaviour as an act of abandonment but just part of a natural pattern.

As MI5 helpfully explains, government policy is "not to define the term, in order to retain the flexibility... to adapt to changing circumstances" – in other words, political expediency.