constitutive
Example Sentences
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"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.
From Reuters ● Apr. 15, 2023
In their view, logic is a constitutive norm of reasoning—that is, logic constitutes what reasoning is.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Board era, they ask, why and how do race and racism continue to play a constitutive role in America?
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021
It is constitutive of being human, just as are creativity, courage, ambition, attachment and love.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2020
They are therefore accidents as distinct from substantial constitutive principles of this subject; and they are therefore called accidental actualities, actus “accidentales”.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
