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What constitutes a big deal is determined by impact, not by how quickly someone wants to move on.

The victor in a war is not determined by the side that has the longest list of kills.

Stored in cells the DNA contains instructions that determine an organism's characteristics early after conception.

Its eastern borders were also mainly, but not totally, determined in wars with British India and with Herat in Afghanistan.

It affects how we think, feel, and act, and also determines how we handle stress and everyday responsibilities.

It fought wars with the Russian Empire that essentially determined its northern border.

Here, it's saying that this particular lawsuit is especially significant and could determine things in the future.

Also, sometimes it’s hard to determine exactly which tribe human remains or artifacts came from, which can – and has– been used as an excuse for holding onto these objects.

By measuring the degree and direction of that shift, we can determine where we’re going and how fast, relative to the CMB.

That some are stupid and others are not, and that the difference is determined by nature and nothing else.

If a counselor determines that you would benefit from long-term counseling, they’ll likely give you a referral to a community counseling agency so that you can address more specific counseling needs on a regular basis.

That’s a mouthful, but whether we’re talking about pineapples, porcupines, or people, it’s not always easy to determine where populations begin and end.

With statistics, they can create models that help predict whether alleles — which are versions of genes, determining things like whether a flower is red or white — are becoming more or less common in a population.

I don't know if we need to be using the same seniority system that we've been using for so long to determine how people rise up the ranks.

And people are talking about doing this and trying to see if in doing such a measurement, they might be able to definitively determine whether gravity is a quantum phenomenon or a continuous phenomenon.