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  • She is determined to find a cure for the disease.
  • By Sunday, he was still determined not to go back to school.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • I was determined to prove her wrong.   (source)
  • The program ended and I returned to BYU. Campus looked the way it always had, and it would have been easy to forget Cambridge and settle back into the life I'd had there. But Professor Steinberg was determined that I not forget.   (source)
  • Head low, determined to leave before anyone else approached, he stepped onto the aft deck of his cabin cruiser.   (source)
  • He was determined that Rudy would hit the ground and stay there.   (source)
  • I was determined it would not happen again.   (source)
  • They are hushed, busy, determined.   (source)
  • Like, you are familiar with the trope of the stoic and determined cancer victim who heroically fights her cancer with inhuman strength and never complains or stops smiling even at the very end, etcetera?   (source)
  • Maybe I must be more determined than others to succeed, but I know that it will happen.   (source)
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  • It was a mystery in itself, whatever it was, and Lina was determined to solve it.   (source)
  • It was slow-going at first, but I was determined to feed us.   (source)
  • What he needed was someone who was focused and determined, someone who would set ultimatums and stick to them.   (source)
  • And he's determined to have the best time of his life.   (source)
    determined = firmly planning
  • There was something about the look on the boy's face when he went running past the school bus those days; something urgent and determined and unforgettable.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • Louie was determined that no matter what happened to their bodies, their minds would stay under their control.   (source)
  • I was determined to haunt Olive Hornby, you see.   (source)
  • It wasn't until he took up running, an activity that rewards will and determination more than finesse or cunning, that he found his athletic calling.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • I wanted to bend down and kiss her, for how small and determined she looked.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • Angela stood between her determined mother and her distraught partner, paralyzed by the burden of choice.   (source)
  • Her voice faded completely, but when she spoke again it had hardened and there was a determined glint in her eyes.   (source)
  • Living the way we do would only make him more determined to get somewhere.   (source)
  • She's determined now, she'll sacrifice everything and everyone.   (source)
  • His mother seemed determined to ask absurd questions.   (source)
  • Sedigeh was determined to find the cause.   (source)
  • Even ten hours assumed road conditions wouldn't get worse, but Chuck was determined that we get there in one day.   (source)
  • Nina is so determined, I fear that the force of her convictions will interfere with the joys of her youth.   (source)
  • I woke clearheaded, determined.   (source)
  • Lale is determined to find out who these men are.   (source)
  • She was amazed at the determination and single-mindedness with which they pursued their goals.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • She refused to give in, and she was determined to overcome her problems by looking past them.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • At least three determined individuals had managed to climb over it since I'd moved in.   (source)
  • You are determined to make this as unpleasant as possible, aren't you?   (source)
  • I was determined to do this well.   (source)
  • Calvin, his face screwed up with grim determination, did not relax his hold.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • The shock of finding the severed leg had left him with a grim determination to close the park, and destroy it.   (source)
  • Mr. Ewell seemed determined not to give the defense the time of day.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • Finny's face set in determination, with the older look I had just detected in him.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • He was determined that his return should be marked by his people.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • They may have been few in number, but they were strong and determined.   (source)
  • I think it is something to do with that Governor Andros of Massachusetts, the one who is determined to take the charter away.   (source)
  • Piggy was looking determined and began to take off his shorts.   (source)
  • Nate's cheeks burned, but he was determined to prove the captain wrong.   (source)
  • It'll all work out, because I'm determined to write!   (source)
  • They're wearing gas masks and holding handcuffs and crushing the poppies under black-booted feet as they march toward me, silent and determined.   (source)
  • Lisa was determined to get in.   (source)
  • This time she was determined to find the philosopher—even if it meant running all the way to Athens.   (source)
  • But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was determined to survive, and so she did.   (source)
  • But he made no complaint and it was plain that he was determined to show what he could do and not to be left behind.   (source)
  • She is determined to get over this allergy.   (source)
  • In my alternately formed body, I have learned lessons about patience, determination, frustration, and success.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • It was fully realized that though the human beings had been defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed they might make another and more determined attempt to recapture the farm and reinstate Mr. Jones.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • Vera said in a determined voice: "Now let us look for the revolver."   (source)
  • "I don't understand anything," she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.   (source)
  • I saw that for some reason of his own he was determined not to come, so I stood up.   (source)
  • I could see that he was determined that they should not pass.   (source)
  • "It was on him!" he continued, with a kind of fierceness; so determined was he to speak out the whole.   (source)
  • Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a determination of not creating you a companion in vice.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • Ron called, his face pale but determined.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • Jack's voice went up, tremulous yet determined, pushing against the uncooperative silence.   (source)
  • Wood looked at the determined look on Harry's face.   (source)
  • Seeing their grief made my mother determined to leave.   (source)
  • Determined not to work again in the shoe factory, Jake stayed only a few nights in New Orleans.   (source)
  • He's making a determined effort to remove the blots from his copybook and keep his affairs in order.   (source)
  • North or South, they're getting exceptionally determined.   (source)
  • He's so determined to move on, he doesn't even think to offer her a good-bye.   (source)
  • He was determined to complete the pieces for this year's showcase collection.   (source)
  • The searching cleverness in her gaze, the determined grace of her brow.   (source)
  • Determined, Esperanza pressed her ear harder to the ground.   (source)
  • No wonder the kid was mad, Roy thought, and no wonder he was so determined.   (source)
  • But Samuel was determined to teach him how to load and fire one perfectly.   (source)
  • "Three Chasers, one Keeper," said Harry, who was determined to remember it all.   (source)
  • When his shift was up, he sped away with an expression of furious determination.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • She didn't look like she was going to cry, only slack and exhausted and determined.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • I am determined to write down what happens.   (source)
    determined = firmly planning
  • "Has any of your sons found a bride?" asked Mother, determined not to let her subject slip away.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • That's one reason Daddy's determined to help DeVante.   (source)
  • All he wanted was a small scrap of triumph, and he was determined to get it.   (source)
  • Instead they seem to be of one mind, determined to whip us into shape.   (source)
  • As much as I'm trying to keep the world out, it seems determined to come in.   (source)
  • I was determined to alter the course of my father's afterlife.   (source)
  • He'd never used to drink before the war, not in any regular, determined way.   (source)
  • Judy had always sent women to the hospital for stitches, but Mother was determined to learn.   (source)
  • At last Ezinma was born, and although ailing she seemed determined to live.   (source)
  • Your determination is a dangerous trait here.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • Determined to go on until nightfall, I walk until I'm stumbling over my own feet.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • Johann hunched over his bench with grim determination.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.   (source)
  • Then Mama took a determined breath and headed toward the sprawling trees.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • He became determined to end the traditional rivalry between him and his cousins.   (source)
  • You read and study nearly all the day, Determined to chase the boredom away.   (source)
  • I tried to convince her to stay the night, or at least take a meal with us, but she was determined.   (source)
  • Dad's determination was etched into his face.   (source)
    determination = firmness of purpose
  • He was still determined not to mention anything to his wife.   (source)
    determined = firm in purpose
  • The rest of him shudders as he tries to keep up with his determined temporal lobe.   (source)
  • And Trudy understood the enormous leverage that practice gives the determined trainer.   (source)
  • Nevertheless I am determined to repossess my former territories, revisit my watering holes.   (source)
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  • The issue needs to be determined politically rather than judiciously.
    determined = officially decided
  • She uses TurboTax to determine her tax liability.
    determine = figure out (learn or calculate)
  • The board determined that she is not eligible for parole.
    determined = officially decided
  • She determined that there was an error in the calculation.
    determined = discovered
  • Fortunately, the coroner determined that Mr. McSouthers died of a heart attack, as did Samuel W Westing.   (source)
    determined = figured out
  • I didn't know shoes determined somebody's race.   (source)
    determined = can be used to figure out
  • Is there any way to determine how long the fibers had been on the jacket?   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • Geneticists use these Punnett squares to determine inheritance, recessive and dominant genes, probabilities and chance.   (source)
  • He walked past me, his shoulders filling out his green knit polo shirt, his back straight, his steps lilting just slightly to the right as he walked steady and confident on what I had determined was a prosthetic leg.   (source)
    determined = figured out
  • They even all have the same last name, and she silently curses whoever it was who determined that they should all be named Ward—as if being one weren't enough of a stigma.   (source)
    determined = decided
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  • No one ever determined who he was, or where he had come from.   (source)
    determined = figured out
  • The coroner determined that the fatal wound was self-inflicted.   (source)
    determined = officially decided after investigation
  • First of all he gave us tests, to determine what we knew.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • Rest assured, I have determined that this is only a matter of misplaced affection and not something medical in nature.   (source)
    determined = officially decided
  • We were being asked to determine the course of the future for these young girls.   (source)
    determine = decide
  • As best as the Count could determine, it included the drafting of "Declarations of Intent,"   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • But I used my powers of deduction to determine that those were two separate kinds of white wine.   (source)
  • Some of the actors are the same, most are new, their lines unwritten, their role not yet determined.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • It was, they would determine, a tumor on the brain, and her decline would be like many others, treatments that made the disease seem mild, hair falling out in patches, mornings spent with noisy radiation machines and evenings spent vomiting in a hospital toilet.   (source)
    determine = learn or discover
  • And I tried to work out a formula to determine whether a traffic jam would be caused just by people slowing down and how this was influenced by (a) the density of traffic, and (b) the speed of the traffic, and (c) how quickly drivers braked when they saw the brake of the lights of the car in front coming on.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • I mean, how does one determine the sex of a dinosaur, anyway?   (source)
  • She determined to nurse her child to health, and she put all her being into it.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • But the portal was connected to the Continuum by such an unlikely arrangement of crystal byways (courtesy of strategically placed looking glasses) that no traveler who wasn't Alyssian had ever determined its location or even learned of its existence.   (source)
    determined = discovered
  • DANFORTH: Do you take it upon yourself to determine what this court shall believe and what it shall set aside?   (source)
    determine = decide
  • After many years of experience with patients—and not least after having analyzed his own dreams—Freud determined that all dreams are wish fulfillments.   (source)
    determined = learned or figured out
  • Nadia would never be able to determine what had become of them, but she always hoped they had found a way to depart unharmed, abandoning the city to the predations of warriors on both sides who seemed content to flatten it in order to possess it.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • He determined to remain silent himself.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • It was always difficult to determine the age of a London building. Anything large and impressive, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the Middle Ages.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall.   (source)
  • I determined to have the matter out.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, or whether, as there is fair authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson as she entered the prison-door, we shall not take upon us to determine.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • You have determined to live, and I am satisfied.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • She was as keen as Alyss for King Nolan's return, but she had determined to enjoy the day's festivities.   (source)
    determined = firmly decided
  • First, to determine my position vis-à-vis the shoreline.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • From that we may be able to determine how many animals were originally hatched.   (source)
  • Well, I'm glad you've used your internet detective skills to determine that Davis is sweet.   (source)
  • "Maybe you should let me determine that myself?" he says.   (source)
    determine = decide
  • Yes, it wouldn't be that hard to determine one way or the other, so why wasn't it done?   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • For her own good, for her own safety, we should at least determine that.   (source)
    determine = decide
  • I think technically he dumped me in the end, but it was one of those things where you'd need, like, a three-judge panel to determine who was technically at fault.   (source)
    determine = learn or discover
  • And the 'truth' is this same process, since there are no criteria beyond the historical process itself that can determine what is the most true or the most reasonable.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • As best as the Count could determine, the Bolsheviks assembled whenever possible in whichever form for whatever reason.   (source)
  • The remains were so badly decomposed that it was impossible to determine exactly when McCandless had died, but the coroner could find no sign of massive internal injuries or broken bones.   (source)
  • "As soon as circumstances allow, a tribunal will be established to determine whether you behaved honorably during Redd's reign or whether you are, in fact, guilty of war crimes," Alyss said.   (source)
  • The plane was equipped with a radio compass that enabled Harry to determine the direction from which the signal was coming.   (source)
  • Perhaps they had decided they did not have it in them to do what would have needed to be done, to corral and bloody and where necessary slaughter the migrants, and had determined that some other way would have to be found.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • The officer watches Leon walk off and turns back to what he was doing previously: determining who should live and die.   (source)
    determining = deciding
  • Genial, brutal parents, up to their necks in collusion, determined on the rightness of their choices, in everything.   (source)
    determined = firmly decided
  • The Count took a kopek from the ticket pocket of his vest and laid it on his thumbnail so that they could determine by toss who would get to choose the tie-breaking category.   (source)
    determine = decide
  • "Pending final determination of your son's status," the cover letter read, "the Oak Leaf Clusters are being sent to you for safe-keeping."   (source)
    determination = an official finding or decision
  • Once we have determined what a particular philosopher's project is, it is easier to follow his line of thought, since no one philosopher concerns himself with the whole of philosophy.   (source)
    determined = figured out
  • As near as they could determine, out of twenty-four people on the island, eight were dead and six more were missing.   (source)
    determine = learn or figure out
  • Perhaps they'd be converted to peacetime production, once it was determined what exactly the returning servicemen would want to buy, for the homes and families they would now doubtless acquire.   (source)
    determined = discovered
  • Sofia moved a little in order to set Dolly at her side and then accepted the book in a ready and determined manner.   (source)
    determined = firmly decided
  • Bibwit Harte was a loyal fellow, and it was because of his loyalty to Genevieve and Alyss and White Imagination that he determined, then and there, to ensure his own survival by appeasing Redd.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • Gennaro said, "Let's see if we can determine that," Muldoon said, and he strode off toward the main road.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • It was as she came to this determination that Jack of Diamonds, running along a heart-shaped passage toward the gardens, suddenly found himself lifted off his feet, his wig again knocked askew.   (source)
    determination = an official finding or decision
  • From the beginning, the Count had determined that he would need to filch a few things from a Norwegian, a Dane, a Swede, or a Finn.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • As best he could determine, he was sitting near the spot where the American girl had been, two days before.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • The Count commenced to cough into his napkin, as he had determined long ago that this was the most effective means of removing wine from his windpipe.   (source)
    determined = learned or figured out
  • So we can take an unknown piece of DNA and determine roughly, by computer, where it fits in the evolutionary sequence.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • "The stairs," he determined on their behalf, then vaulted the steps two at a time, as had been his habit since the academy.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • My colleagues and I determined, several years ago, that it was possible to clone the DNA of an extinct animal, and to grow it.   (source)
    determined = discovered or figured out
  • With a quick accounting of columns and shelves, the Count determined that in this row alone, there were over a thousand bottles—a thousand bottles virtually identical in shape and weight.   (source)
    determined = figured out
  • While the exact number of glances could not be determined, the evidence did seem to suggest that the Count's attention had been drawn to the clock more than once.   (source)
  • There, several duly goateed officers of the current regime determined that for the crime of being born an aristocrat, I should be sentenced to spend the rest of my days …. in this hotel.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • Because they had determined that to exile a man from Russia as God had exiled Adam from Eden was insufficient as a punishment; for in another country, a man might immerse himself in his labors, build a house, raise a family.   (source)
  • One day he determined to set a trap for Hufsa, to find out whether it was he who was at the bottom of the trouble.   (source)
  • Hazel determined then and there to bring the rabbits up to the beanfield to shelter and rest until the evening.   (source)
  • So he determined to get the better of him, not by means of his own great power but by means of a trick.   (source)
  • When the news reached King Darzin, he became very angry indeed, and he determined that this time he would start a war and finish El-ahrairah once and for all.   (source)
  • When Bigwig had determined not to come out of Efrafa without Blackavar, he had been moved entirely by pity for a miserable, helpless victim of Woundwort's ruthlessness.   (source)
  • A thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses.   (source)
    determine = figure out
  • Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now.   (source)
  • He moved himself mentally from place to place, and tried to determine by the feeling of his body whether he was perched high in the air or buried deep underground.   (source)
  • After a general discussion it was determined that for tonight nothing be definitely settled.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • He wanted to go, and he didn't see that Mr. Sloane had determined he shouldn't.   (source)
  • The matter seemed preying on his mind, and so I determined to use it, to "be cruel only to be kind."   (source)
  • So I went back to bed again, but determined not to go to sleep.   (source)
  • I suspected him, and determined to test his sincerity.   (source)
  • These reflections determined me, and I resolved to remain silent.   (source)
    determined = made my mind up for
  • She hesitated some time, but at length she formed her determination.   (source)
    determination = decision
  • On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • My departure for Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon.   (source)
  • I slept till just before the dawn, and when I woke threw myself on my knees, for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready.   (source)
  • Then a wild desire took me to obtain the key at any risk, and I determined then and there to scale the wall again, and gain the Count's room.   (source)
  • I determined not to wake her, but that when I should return from this new search, I would arrange for her going back to Exeter.   (source)
  • So I determined to write only formal notes now, but to write fully to Mr. Hawkins in secret, and also to Mina, for to her I could write shorthand, which would puzzle the Count, if he did see it.   (source)
  • I determined not to return tonight to the gloom-haunted rooms, but to sleep here, where, of old, ladies had sat and sung and lived sweet lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for their menfolk away in the midst of remorseless wars.   (source)
  • I had a growing conviction that this sudden change of his entire intellectual method was but yet another phase of his madness, and so determined to let him go on a little longer, knowing from experience that he would, like all lunatics, give himself away in the end.   (source)
  • I had determined, if you were going southwards, still to trust myself to the mercy of the seas rather than abandon my purpose.   (source)
  • I had determined at one time that the memory of these evils should die with me, but you have won me to alter my determination.   (source)
    determination = decision
  • London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city.   (source)
    determined = decided
  • I had determined at one time that the memory of these evils should die with me, but you have won me to alter my determination.   (source)
  • It was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone brightly on the white ground, I determined to recommence my travels;   (source)
  • Having parted from my friend, I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland and finish my work in solitude.   (source)
  • After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.   (source)
    determination = decision
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  • This game will determine who wins the national championship.
    determine = control
  • A coin flip determines the outcome.
    determines = controls
  • The number of days of vacation is determined by years at the company.
    determined = controlled
  • We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.   (source)
    determine = control (how something will turn out)
  • I thought about the Apache women. Like the sandstone altar on which they had died, the shape of their lives had been determined years before—before the horses began their gallop, their sorrel bodies arching for that final collision.   (source)
    determined = controlled or decided
  • I love physics because it is about truth, a world determined by principles and laws—no messing around or twisting things like in politics, particularly those in my country.   (source)
    determined = controlled
  • I cringed a little at the position of power I'd been granted, and all because I had won at the genetic lottery that had determined my sex.   (source)
  • But today we honor your differences. They have determined your futures. She began to describe this year's group and its variety of personalities,   (source)
  • To kill even those whose proposed deaths are the reason for this killing may not seem just, but for the People of Joy it isn't guilt or innocence that determines such things, it's whether or not you've been tainted, and as far as the People of Joy are concerned everyone in a tainted city is as tainted as everyone else.   (source)
    determines = controls (how something will turn out)
  • They drew straws to determine the order in which they would compete.   (source)
    determine = control (how something will turn out)
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  • For the reading on the thermometer will not only govern the pace of advance, but will also determine the adequacy of supplies, and either bolster or betray the courage of one's men.   (source)
  • One play can determine the course of a game.   (source)
  • The Devon's course was determined by some familiar hills a little inland; it rose among highland farms and forests which we knew, passed at the end of its course through the school grounds, and then threw itself with little spectacle over a small waterfall beside the diving dam, and into the turbid Naguamsett.   (source)
    determined = controlled
  • A complex system of "privileges" determined how many nurses accompanied each patient, and whether a patient could leave the grounds in the first place.   (source)
    determined = controlled (how something turned out)
  • Common sense was not determined by environment.   (source)
    determined = controlled
  • In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination.   (source)
    determination = the process of controlling how something turns out
  • They believed the development of the mind, heart, and soul determines who you are and who you will become.   (source)
    determines = controls (how something will turn out)
  • Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.   (source)
    determining = controlling (how something will turn out)
  • "I understand your feeling," continued he, perceiving that I wished to interrupt him; "but you are mistaken, my friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny; listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined."   (source)
    determined = controlled
  • By establishing himself as the protagonist of his own story, he inspired me and countless other young people to see ourselves as capable of taking control of our own destinies, and to realize how each decision we make determines the course of our life stories.†   (source)
  • Rank determines whom it can associate with and how; where and when it can eat; where it can rest; where it can drink; and so on.†   (source)
  • That will be your final test, which determines your ranking for stage three.†   (source)
  • He was the best academically; he had the highest marks in leadership—whatever that is, and however the U.S. Army determines what it is.†   (source)
  • Shoot, we studied together, staying up all night, cramming for this one test that determines everything.†   (source)
  • It's the culture you find yourself in that determines that.†   (source)
  • Maybe not consciously, but every time a choice is made between one meaning of a word or another, the translator determines which one to use based on what he believes is correct, based on his own personal history with the subject.†   (source)
  • If we want a picture, we have to get a requisition, but if the mind game program determines that the picture is necessary.†   (source)
  • Where, I want to ask, is the doctor who determines if I am losing my mind?†   (source)
  • The Nevada Gaming Control Board determines not only who can own a casino, but who can enter one.†   (source)
  • Did I think it was my last defense against the ruin worked out for me so casually by the force or nonforce, the principle or power or chaos that determines such things?†   (source)
  • Then it is you who determines good and evil.†   (source)
  • Halleck said: "The Duke Leto determines whether—"†   (source)
  • How we view those problems determines how we end up.†   (source)
  • He isn't following any set of written instructions because the nature of the material at hand determines his thoughts and motions, which simultaneously change the nature of the material at hand.†   (source)
  • It will be Qurong who determines your fate, not Chelise.†   (source)
  • But as a journalist I must always seek a second source of verification unless the ministry determines otherwise.†   (source)
  • If the court determines that you are mentally ill, the media's interest in continuing to dig around in the "Salander affair" will die away.†   (source)
  • What standard determines your caste?†   (source)
  • Mallos chooses one of the Milago, and that determines how much glaze they must mine for Kagan the next day.†   (source)
  • A surgeon determines his course and acts.†   (source)
  • By treaty, in Great Britain the king, in his privy council, determines them.†   (source)
  • Speed of spin determines the gradient, and you can flex the field to extend.†   (source)
  • How heavy and massive the universe is will determine what happens.   (source)
    determine = control
  • We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.   (source)
  • Irrational impulses often determine what we think, what we dream, and what we do.   (source)
  • But according to Hume, it is not reason that determines what we say and do.   (source)
    determines = controls
  • But was that really what determined how you looked?   (source)
    determined = controlled
  • If a flood disaster renders millions of people homeless, it is our feelings that determine whether we come to their aid.   (source)
    determine = control
  • In August of the same year, when he was barely twenty-two years old, he received a letter which was to determine the course of his whole life ….   (source)
  • The thoughts that are washed along with the current of past tradition, as well as the material conditions prevailing at the time, help to determine how you think.   (source)
  • They thought that right and wrong is something mainly determined by the environment the individual grows up in.   (source)
    determined = controlled
  • But these movements are determined, too, by the rocks and bends in the river at the point where you are observing it.   (source)
  • For Hume it was neither our reason nor our experience that determined the difference between right and wrong.   (source)
    determined = controlled or decided
  • But he thought that, to a great extent, it was the material factors in society which determined the way we think.   (source)
    determined = controlled
  • Everything you see is part of the world around you, but how you see it is determined by the glasses you are wearing.   (source)
  • Every tiny movement in the water at a given spot in the river is determined by the falls and eddies in the water higher upstream.   (source)
  • The new physics had also raised the question of the nature of matter, and thus what determines the physical processes of nature.   (source)
    determines = controls
  • What has driven historical development from the slave society of antiquity to the industrial society of today has primarily been determined by changes in the base of society.   (source)
    determined = controlled
  • But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.   (source)
  • These are the foundation of any society, and this foundation clearly determines the type of production in the society, and by the same token, the nature of that society and its culture in general.   (source)
    determines = controls
  • You acted out of good will, and according to Kant, it is this good will which determines whether or not the action was morally right, not the consequences of the action.   (source)
  • So far we can conclude that it is the mode of production in a society which determines which political and ideological conditions are to be found there.   (source)
  • 'Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?'   (source)
    determined = controlled (how something turned out)
  • I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.†   (source)
  • It is a formal convocation of Fremen leaders to witness a combat that determines tribal leadership.†   (source)
  • The first is that it determines the order in which you will select a job after initiation.†   (source)
  • What determines the material value of your work?†   (source)
  • But they will be included in the federal census that determines the number of representatives.†   (source)
  • The federal government determines the value of currency and public securities.†   (source)
  • "What determines the number of trains which any given railroad is obligated to run?" she asked.†   (source)
  • "Nobody," he said, "who has really gone into the matter will deny that in practice the world of phenomena uniquely determines the theoretical system, in spite of the fact that there is no theoretical bridge between phenomena and their theoretical principles."†   (source)
  • It determines feeding schedules, demands equipment upgrades, and employs "flock supervisors" to make sure that corporate directives are being followed.†   (source)
  • "When management determines exactly how every task is to be done …. and can impose its own rules about pace, output, quality, and technique:' the sociologist Robin Leidner has noted, "[it] makes workers increasingly interchangeable:' The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers — those things are built into the operating system and machines.†   (source)
  • PARACOMPASS: any compass that determines direction by local magnetic anomaly; used where relevant charts are available and where a planet's total magnetic field is unstable or subject to masking by severe magnetic storms.†   (source)
  • "The serum connects you to the program," he says, "but the program determines whose landscape you go through.†   (source)
  • Antoine has a long slick head and narrow neck, a man of schemes and contrivances, called Snake when he was younger, and he determines it is necessary to turn his upper body to the wall behind him so he can identify the objects in question.†   (source)
  • Less than forty-six per cent of our population care enough to cast a vote — which determines the directions we take.†   (source)
  • The land and the water are one, and it is the will of the spirit that determines how man will use the land and the water — again without regard for such abstractions as useless freedom or escapable confinement.†   (source)
  • Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but it's only the degree to which he thinks that determines the degree to which he'll rise.†   (source)
  • That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.†   (source)
  • No-my manner disquiets him, and he determines to complete the case against Lester.†   (source)
  • Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man.†   (source)
  • 'That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines.'†   (source)
  • What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.†   (source)
  • Yet it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.†   (source)
  • The crest of this ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very capricious line.†   (source)
  • "Sir," said the notary, "how do you intend disposing of your fortune in case Mademoiselle de Villefort still determines on marrying M. Franz?"†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 52 Nicholas despairs of rescuing Madeline Bray, but plucks up his Spirits again, and determines to attempt it.†   (source)
  • Brother Dowley, who is it that determines, every spring, what the particular wage of each kind of mechanic, laborer, and servant shall be for that year?†   (source)
  • Chapter XVI Links ARTHUR DONNITHORNE, you remember, is under an engagement with himself to go and see Mr. Irwine this Friday morning, and he is awake and dressing so early that he determines to go before breakfast, instead of after.†   (source)
  • Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, with a look of nervous agitation such as Pierre had never before seen on his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind and suddenly determines to speak out.†   (source)
  • If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.†   (source)
  • It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.   (source)
    predetermined = controlled in advance
    standard prefix: The prefix "pre-" means in advance or before as seen in prepay and preschool.
  • The idea here was that everything that happens is predetermined.   (source)
  • At Audrey's wedding, seeing my brothers in their suits, those black uniforms, my rage turned to fear, of some predetermined loss, and I forgave Shawn.   (source)
    predetermined = controlled in advance (how something turned out)
  •   If he be slain, say I; or if not, no.
      Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.   (source)
    determine = control (how something will turn out)
  • Tybalt:
        Thou wretched boy, that didst consort him here
        Shalt with him hence.
    Romeo:
        This shall determine that.
    [They fight.]   (source)
  • It is the user that determines the matter, and particularly the user's habitual way of thinking.†   (source)
  • ] The King Is pleas'd you shall to the Tower, till you know How he determines further.†   (source)
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