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  • verb Present participle of constitute.

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  • Paris, a Middle East fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York from 1995 to 2000, stated that other spotlights would be Pakistan - which he described as constituting the "prize" -, "the most pivotal state in the Middle East," Egypt, with President Hosni Mubarak's succession pending, and Iraq where "corruption" of the Baghdad government would be the core problem without mentioning Obama's promise to withdraw occupation forces there.

    MyAntiwar.org 2008

  • I realize, of course, that he follows this with a kind of pragmatic incantation, for he says that in constituting respectively material and procedural means, the two types of propositions are conjugate, or functionally correspondent.

    A good idea at the time Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • I realize, of course, that he follows this with a kind of pragmatic incantation, for he says that in constituting respectively material and procedural means, the two types of propositions are conjugate, or functionally correspondent.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • A settlement could be in fact reached around the provisional term “Republic of Northern Macedonia” (with the geographic term constituting a condition sine qua non for Athens), originally proposed by Matthew Nimitz, UN mediator in the negotiation over the dispute.

    Towards a compromise on the name dispute? 2009

  • A settlement could be in fact reached around the provisional term “Republic of Northern Macedonia” (with the geographic term constituting a condition sine qua non for Athens), originally proposed by Matthew Nimitz, UN mediator in the negotiation over the dispute.

    Towards a compromise on the name dispute? 2009

  • In other subcultures, “heavy” is a drug term constituting anything that requires a great deal of thought.

    Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2003

  • The proposition is composed of two terms and the copula, one term constituting the subject of the proposition and the other the predicate.

    Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • His winsome personality and democratic bearing have had a wonderful effect in constituting a personal bond between the Throne and citizens of the Empire in outlying Dominions and in the Motherland.

    Links of Empire 1928

  • All the events between those two we speak of as constituting His "first coming."

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

  • Jacobins, invalidating the returns of a majority when not satisfactory to them, and rendering the choice of a minority valid, if it suited them, in short, constituting itself the chief elector of all local and central authorities.

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

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