Sentences with 'defines'
Example sentences and phrases with the word defines and other words derived from it.
• « In many ways, ancient Rome defines Western civilisation. Even more than Greece, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire that followed created the idea of a single, united civilisation that shared certain attributes and provided an enduring intellectual and political legacy. »
• « Central to the nationalist movements was the concept that the state should correspond to the identity of a "people", although who or what defines the identity "of the people" often proved to be a vexing question. »
• « One perspective emphasises the existence of a consensual political culture as a fundamental element for the proper functioning of institutions. This position, in highlighting the cultural issue, takes into account the values that are present in a system that defines itself as democratic. »
• « A second perspective - markedly different from the previous one - defines democracy by the form it has taken in contemporary industrial societies: a competition between elites in search of mass support. »