Sentence examples for of a definite from inspiring English sources

(Note the singularity of "CIA", and its lack of a definite article).

"The crossing of the Channel gives the impression of a definite conquest," said Pétite Republique.

Even the tax credits would not infuriate her if they were not part of a definite and very recent trend.

Ideas predict that the undertaking of a definite line of conduct in specified conditions will produce a determinate result.

As Lenin put it: "Every particular slogan must be deduced from the totality of specific features of a definite political situation".

Even so, Copenhagen politicos speak of a definite Borgen effect, reckoning Denmark's parliamentarians and their aides started behaving the way they had seen characters conduct themselves on screen.

He believes the church's treatment of him, which he described as a "Spanish Inquisition-style campaign," is symptomatic of a definite conservative shift under Pope Benedict XVI.

After the Arab conquest in 651 652 ce, the name was retained both as the designation of a definite province and in a looser sense.

Isoetes differs from both Selaginella and Lycopodium in the occurrence of secondary growth in the stem and the possession of a definite root-producing meristem.

Planimeter, mathematical instrument for directly measuring the area bounded by an irregular curve, and hence the value of a definite integral.

The evidence is against this, inasmuch as for Hippias, Prodicus, Gorgias, and Protagoras there are records of a definite interest in questions of this kind.