Sentence examples for to define something from inspiring English sources

They struggle, instead, to define something else.

Dr. Greene said the most interesting aspect was "how hard it was to define something that seems so obvious".

"The need for 300 pages of rules just shows you're trying to define something indefinable," Mr. Kaufman said.

The latter point can be particularly vexing for bigger companies with many different divisions -- each with an entrenched view on how to define something as simple as revenue.

I wanted to be that person on the other side, so I needed to define something that I could stick to.

A foreign language having a single word to define something that they would need a whole sentence to express in their mother tongue would also be, conversely, a pleasure-giving piece of information.

Words to him were like stone to a skilled sculptor, raw material which he deftly chiselled away to shape and define something of aesthetic, as well as practical, value.

If you define something as unlawful, you are going to police it in the wrong way.

They are pieces that define something fundamental about his music.

Nahum Barnea, a columnist for Yediot Aharonot, said the dispute made him realize how Israel, even as it approached its 60th anniversary, "is still trying to define itself, something most states don't have to do".

"There is such thing as Quality, but that as soon as you try to define it, something goes haywire.