Sentence examples for or defining from inspiring English sources

Each show abounds with inspired moments, but has no center or defining direction.

Cameron threw in the "seven-day NHS pledge" without costing or defining it.

Black Friday is no longer the defined or defining retail event it once was.

The very act of labelling an action or defining it in a particular way is complex and freighted with meaning.

The band's members, all similarly diffident, resist defining themselves as rock stars — or defining themselves at all.

It was not a forum for explaining policies or defining ideals, certainly none ever associated with Mr. McCain.

The weekend agreement appears to prevent the military from setting ground rules unilaterally or defining its own role.

The number can be reduced by narrowing the subject, adding more specific details, or defining more precisely the information needed.

It is unclear whether the proposed body would have as its priority public protection and standards of service or defining educational standards.

Instead of spending years constructing an intricate theoretical framework, or defining new areas of research, he focussed on obtaining particular results.

Neither Beaver nor Rumsfeld drew any "bright line" prohibiting the combination of these techniques, or defining any limits for their use.