8 sentences with 'defining'

Example sentences and phrases with the word defining and other words derived from it.

« This use of primary sources remains the defining characteristic of history as an academic discipline: professional historians must seek out writings and artefacts from their areas of study and use them as the basis for their own interpretations. »
« 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. »
« The defining characteristic of Victorianism was the desire for security, especially security from the influence of the lower classes. »
« Nowhere was the Victorian obsession with defining and restricting people into carefully defined categories stronger than in gender roles. »
« Spencer was a fervent advocate of free market economics and also contributed to the process of defining human races in biological, rather than cultural or historical terms. »
« World War II was the defining disaster of the 20th century for millions of people around the world. It was the culmination of the vision of total war that the world had first encountered in the First World War, but it spread to vast swathes of the globe, not just parts of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. »
« One of the defining transformations in world politics after the Second World War was the shift of power from Europe to the United States and the Soviet Union. »
« Most centre-right parties outside Britain have been less willing to actually gut the welfare state than Thatcher and her conservatives, but the general focus on the market remains their defining characteristic overall. »
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