Example sentences of "define themselves by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we listen to them carefully , it is evident that they parade their doubts not so much to resolve them as to evoke public sympathy and to gain that sense of identity which comes from subconsciously defining themselves by their problems . |
| 2 | One example is the way Christians become tongue-tied when people define themselves by what they reject in Christianity . |
| 3 | Even feminist psychological theories which reject this biological concept completely , remain determined by it , since they define themselves by this rejection . |
| 4 | Yet for most of human history people have defined themselves by work . |
| 5 | Rangers have defined themselves by their success at ( 2 ) . |