"Determinative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... southern California, because of the widely different behavior of the separate plants in the different parts of the district. You can hardly work on the basis of soil character: moisture supply and temperatures are more determinative. Surely you should make a scheme for irrigated land different from that for dry land, and it could not only be a longer rotation, but many more plants would be available ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson
... hope may be more potent than certainty in a lesser matter. The faintest vision of God is more determinative of life than a gross ...
— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford
... down to Ceratium, Alb. & Schw. But this had been by Schrank preoccupied, 1793. See the reference above for 1889. As for specific name, there seems no reason to depart from the rule of priority, since Mueller's work is determinative. ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
... the determinative prefix for a god or a goddess being, in the oldest form, a picture of an eight-rayed star, it has been assumed that Assyro-Babylonian mythology is, either wholly or partly, astral in origin. This, however, ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Theophilus G. Pinches |
