6 sentences with 'defined'
Example sentences and phrases with the word defined and other words derived from it.
• « Historians divide Persian history into periods defined by the founding clan of a particular royal dynasty. »
• « Critics claimed that it was impossible for him to have gone as far north as he claimed, because northern Greece was quite cold and there was no way humans could live further north than that. In practice, despite Pytheas' journey, the Greek world would still be defined by the shores of the Mediterranean. »
• « While certainly clarifying the beliefs of the most powerful branch of the institutional church, as the Council of Nicea defined official orthodoxy, it guaranteed that there would always be those who would reject that orthodoxy in the name of a different theological interpretation. »
• « Early medieval Europe was defined by shared cultural traits, especially those related to religion. »
• « The Lutherans published a specific creed defining Lutheran beliefs known as the Augsburg Confession in 1530, and the Catholic Council of Trent in the following decades defined exactly what Catholic doctrine consisted of. Thus, there was a hardening of beliefs as ambiguities and points of common agreement were eliminated. »
• « Along with that change came the growth of a new type of state and society, one not only defined by the growth of the bureaucracy seen in absolutism, but in the power of the moneyed classes whose wealth was not based on land ownership. »