How much are you contributing annually to the $21 billion worldwide toy industry (a market that essentially defines "discretionary spending")?
In 2002 the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, a list that essentially defines the American film canon.
They faced each other in The Game, the Harvard-Yale matchup that essentially defines each team's season, during Restic's entire tenure at Harvard, Yale winning 13 times to Harvard's 10.
When SCOTUSblog asked which case she would argue if she could choose any throughout history, Ms. Millett chose the 1803 case that essentially defined the court's role: "Marbury v. Madison, of course," she said.
Some right-wing politicians have recently called for Israel to assert legal sovereignty over the territory, a unilateral step that would essentially define the contours of a future Palestinian state — and that is anathema not only to the Palestinian leadership but also to the United States and Europe.
Instead of pouring its programmes through pipes that it had either invented or whose development it had aided, the BBC is obliged "to play out its digital innovations in spaces that are essentially defined by Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple," in the words of Matt Locke, once head of innovation at BBC new media and now running his own company, Storythings.
More than that, the Explorer essentially defined the conventional S.U.V. -- that is, family-size wagons built like trucks, with bodies mounted to a frame.
"It occurred to us that the items in your handbag essentially define who you are and what is important to you," Ms. Spade said.
Certain 'Domains' essentially define protein families (like Cytochrome_P450, Globin, Innexin).
