Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.
I'm a very determined person.
I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.
The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.
So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?
I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Everything that happens is determined by God.
I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.