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The government has insisted the Act will not see early releases for offenders deemed "the most dangerous", including those on extended determinate or life sentences.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Prisoners on standard determinate sentences - a fixed-length prison term - could move to the post-custody stage after serving one-third of their sentence providing they behave well.

From BBC ● May 22, 2025

Determinate tomatoes: McKeever makes the case for determinate tomatoes, which are tomatoes that stay bushy instead of vining out and have a more set production, as these have more compact root systems.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Substantial Forms, Occult Qualities, Intentional Species, Idiosyncrasies, Sympathies and Antipathies of Things, are exploded...because they are only empty Sounds, Words whereof no Man can form a certain and determinate Idea.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

That's precisely what them men war determinated not ter be!

From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser

The extent and the intensity of production have been and remain the determinating factors in the extent and kind of the means of production.

From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka

If we must look for some determinating influences during the childhood of Schiller, they are chiefly to be found in the character of his father.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Its character is such that it becomes the determinating factor of human adaptations to the conditions imposed by the environment, by envisaging the enduring and efficacious elements among these conditions as persons.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

Mind is the determinating principle; matter is indeterminate and indefinite.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

The sulphuric compounds are related and yet opposed to the growth determinating phosphoric compounds.

From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann