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In the email to Lees, seen by the BBC, the officer writes the two prisoners can have their custodial terms reduced as they are serving a standard determinate sentence.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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

I would be excited to add a larger system that accommodates larger plants like compact dwarf or determinate tomatoes.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

You argue that there's no one right way to do things, no determinate outcome, but that a tradition can evolve out of diverse views coming into conflict with with some kind of self-regulation.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022

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 Fraser, Malcolm

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 Bode, Boyd H.

The New Englanders were anxious to buy the lands, but were earnest in their determinating to exclude slavery from the new territory.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Roosevelt, Theodore

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 Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

But even to-day what do we find the general reliance of the American mind in determinating this question?

From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Crummell, Alexander

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 Hertzka, Theodor