constitutive
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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
It is constitutive of being human, just as are creativity, courage, ambition, attachment and love.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2020
The great thing about these two constitutive aspects of our political system, we have long been told, is that they are mutually reinforcing.
From Slate ● May 31, 2018
It is not so usual nowadays to call these intrinsic constitutive principles of things causes of the latter; but they verify the general definition of cause.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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