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constitute English

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constitute

If something is being constituted, it is being set up or established. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. If A constitutes B, it combines to form C. Truth and reason constitute the intellectual gold that destruction.

constitute

(= represent, make up, comprise, be) form or compose This money is my only income The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance These constitute my entire belonging The children made up the chorus This sum represents my entire income for a year These few men comprise his entire army (= nominate) create and charge with a task or function nominate a committee (= form, make) to compose or represent This wall forms the background of the stage setting The branches made a roof This makes a fine introduction (= establish) set up or lay the groundwork for establish a new department

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Simple sentences

These things constitute a balanced meal.
Six members constitute the committee.
The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
Right is with the strongest-the limits of our power constitute our laws.
Any alteration to this certificate renders it invalid, and use of an altered certificate could constitute a criminal offence.
Facts do not constitute the truth.

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In her own way, she may constitute an entire second front.
Brother Leone, lamb of our good Lord, even were we able to speak the language of the angels and know the secrets of the heart, even that would not constitute perfect happiness.
Together with Sergeant Craig and me, you will constitute the operational team.
In the event of our death this report, with the recording of the saucer sounds on this tape constitute all the data we have.
It would constitute a bribe.
Simple murders and atrocities do not constitute. the gravamen of the charges in this indictment.
The treaty, set by subspace radio, established this neutral zone, entry into which, by either side, would constitute an act of war.
Schools, in this case, constitute the first stage.
Even for the dumbest cop, this would constitute proof.
They constitute the hard core of our problem and I'm going to crush them once and for all!
You constitute social danger.
Well, every day, five days a week for 15 years. I've been sitting behind that desk, the dispassionate pundit. reporting with seemly detachment. the daily parade of lunacies that constitute the news.
If Wainwright received it, it would constitute an injustice to others who have done far more.
These threats constitute an attack on the people's inalienable democratic right to have leaders of their choice, who must be protected by every possible means, no matter how much we might regret the necessity for doing so.
Who knows? In her own way, she may constitute an entire second front.
If not, we are determined to invoke the privilege of nobles of this colony. by His Most Catholic Majesty, Charles V. to depose his viceroy of the New Indies and constitute a provisional government.
Broken bones constitute evidence that I, as tutor, refuse to admit.
Your Majesty, leaving the ball would constitute a breach of the newly established amicable relations.
I'd better not. It would constitute a bribe.
The City Council shall constitute itself a special court and there shall be no appeal from the decision of this court.
All my thinking could be summed up with these words: Since corrupt people unite among themselves to constitute a force, honest people must do the same.
The treaty, set by subspace radio, established this Neutral Zone, entry into which, by either side, would constitute an act of war.
Counterfeit bills are not hearsay, they constitute very damaging evidence.
Now, in your opinion as a demolitions expert, what do these components constitute?
But does our involvement here also constitute a violation of the Prime Directive?
Listen, Love Love, even for the dumbest cop that would constitute a proof.
Mrs. Garrison's daughters have not, and they constitute a majority.
Simple murders and atrocities do not constitute the gravamen of the charges in this indictment.
Don't they constitute a risk of contamination to you and to Lee?
Through this method of questioning, answering. questioning, answering. we seek to develop in you the ability to analyze. that vast complex of facts that constitute. the relationships of members within a given society.
It is then that political economy comes. to constitute the dominant science and the science of domination.
Thus, the time which is officially affirmed across. the entire expanse of the globe as the general time of society, signifying only the specialized interests which constitute it, is merely one particular time.
I've been sitting behind that desk, the dispassionate pundit. reporting with seemly detachment. the daily parade of lunacies that constitute the news.
It's made of four different parts, called nucleotides which constitute the four letters of the genetic code the language of heredity.
Prominent here are two dark lines in the violet due to calcium in the atmospheres of the hundreds of billions of stars that constitute this galaxy.

News and current affairs

As a result, Kosovo and Serbia would constitute two distinct international subjects, bound by a confederation hinging on a common decision-making body.
The confederation I advocate would thus constitute an intermediate stage (lasting five or ten years), at the end of which Kosovo is likely to become fully independent.
To be viable, a state needed to be large enough to defend itself and to constitute a relatively self-contained economic market.
Even this limited version would constitute progress; most of the gains arise from removing the red tape that complicates cross-border establishment of small and medium-size service enterprises and limits competition in broad sectors of the economy.
The Jews, the defense claimed, do not constitute a race.
Wages and prices fell, but not enough to allow Argentina to compete effectively, especially since many of the agricultural goods which constitute Argentina's natural comparative advantages face high hurdles in entering the markets of rich countries.
The policies outlined by the participants will, when implemented, constitute a step in that direction.
But, as direct-tax concessions have little or no effect in diverting international investment, let alone in attracting such flows, they constitute an unnecessary loss of revenue.
Elections without liberty do not constitute genuine democracy, and here Egypt faces a serious challenge: its best-organized group, the Muslim Brotherhood, rejects religious liberty and individual rights, especially the rights of women.
When interdependence is balanced, it does not constitute a source of power.
Moreover, viewed from a wider perspective, economic and social turbulence on Europe's southern periphery will constitute a geopolitical risk.
And, while various creditor countries rightly fear that eurobonds would push up their borrowing costs and constitute a transfer union, opponents might eventually come around to seeing eurobonds as the least bad option.
In other words, it is not true that the European Union does not constitute a political union.
Manufacturers in the US have decided that Chinese-made bras constitute a threat to the American way of life.
These bilateral relationships constitute much of the strategic undercurrent of East Asian security at a time when the region's long-term geostrategic stability has come into question.
Because simple demographic implies that Palestinians would gradually come to constitute a majority, a unitary state is a recipe for the end of Israel.
Human capital - not natural resources, production capacity, or financial reserves - should constitute the foundation of Russian and European development policies.
Even so, such marginal forces do not yet constitute a system for redressing grievances.
Systematic cyber attacks constitute a new frontier of asymmetrical warfare at a time when the world already confronts other unconventional threats, including transnational terrorism.
But efforts like these, by focusing on the need to provide appropriate and less expensive care for chronic diseases, constitute a small step in the right direction.
Six years ago, President George W. Bush and other leaders adopted the ambitious goals that constitute the core of the MDGs.

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