Sentence examples for was a defining component from inspiring English sources

"When Cunard Line goes around Cape Horn, that's an indication that the grand old days of cruising are still around, but adventure has become a component of cruising in the same way that elegance was a defining component in the grand old days," said Jeffrey Laign, editorial director of Porthole Cruise Magazine.

We consider the IDF definition of metabolic syndrome more appropriate since central obesity is a defined component and there are ethnicity specific values.

Although CHD4 is a defining NuRD component, there has been a steady accumulation of evidence that it also functions independently of NuRD [ 23, 25, 26].

A process is a defined event occurring between components or to a component.

Which may not sound like a huge loss, because it's just a piece of silly wordplay, but it is a loss: the ability to take a joke is a fundamental, perhaps defining, component of social legitimacy and confidence.

This observation was an important component in defining the 1980 World Health Organization (WHO) diagnostic criteria for diabetes together with thresholds for diabetes-specific microvascular complications such as retinopathy.

Star anise is also the defining component of Chinese five-spice, a delicious and distinctive seasoning.

IR is the primary defect underlying the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus and is a key component defining the metabolic syndrome, a constellation of abnormalities including obesity, hypertension, glucose intolerance, and dyslipidemia that may eventually lead to cardiovascular disease.

We believe that urinary bladder volume is a central component in defining POUR, and non-evidence-based recommendations on bladder volumes for defining (and treating) POUR vary from 500 mL (Balderi and Carli 2010) to 600 mL (Balderi et al. 2011), mostly based on the assumption that over-distension of the bladder may cause detrusor damage and subsequently urological deficits (Baldini et al. 2009).

We found that endemic species were a critical component in defining the uniqueness of unionid communities.

This supports the view that EPS is an important component defining the structural characteristics of this type of biofilm [ 41, 50].