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determinate

di tur muh nayt

  • a  precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause
    a determinate distance
    a determinate number
    determinate variations in animals
  • a  not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex
    determinate growth
  • s  supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement
    a determinate answer to the problem

  • How, for instance, does one render the odd ambiguities and shifts of cubist or futurist painting in terms of this rigidly determinate dot-and-line style?.
  • It assumes that the laws of war are as determinate as those about assault or murder in the domestic realm.
  • That's accomplished by using the satellite-delivered Global Positioning System (GPS) in conjunction with the conventional, onboard positional determinate system.
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  • Stephane Dion in Canada.com
    This election will be determinate not only for the next four years but will give a path for the next 40 years,Dion said in a telephone interview with the Montreal Gazette.
  • Ronald Reagan in Georgetown University The Hoya
    In this case, as in every one, Ronald Reagan said it best: "The ultimate determinate in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the...
  • Gordon Brown in AFP
    It is becoming an increasingly obvious fact of economic history that the development of economic systems which concentrate on the common good depends on a determinate ethical system, which in turn can be born and sustained only by strong religious... Pope Benedict XVI http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG46bW2RwVceLegHVO52x6Mpv_pVg Investor's Business Daily (subscription) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp%3Fsecid%3D1501%26status%3Darticle%26id%3D312508470843430&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHc6veMzPnXN5QIxUIroFUBtkDoJA Nov 25, 2008 27075 35833 determination British prime minister Brown said: This tragedy reinforces our commitment to confront terrorism. It strengthens our determination never to concede to the demands of terrorists, nor to pay ransoms."

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