Preposition: of

• identity: Consciousness, for Collins, is both an emergent property and constitutive of personal identity.

• life: Theory and practice are shown to be interwoven, and constitutive of social life.

• meaning: In the one case, markup is constitutive of the meaning; in the other, it is interpretive.

• person: This esteem positively values the disproportion constitutive of every person.

• event: Chisholm objects to inclusion of times as constitutive of particular events since he wants to avoid commitment to times as entities.

• democracy: This has two facets: first, the communist ' other ' was constitutive of democracy, but now communism is no more.

Modifies a noun

• equation: This opens up possibilities for simulating flow fields without the need of a closed form constitutive equation.

• activation: Here, we show that p120 ablation in NIH3T3 cells induces constitutive activation of RhoA.

• promoter: By contrast a constitutive human promoter, beta actin, was less effected.

• expression: Both promoters have been shown to drive constitutive expression of the encoded proteins in genetically modified maize.

• element: Language is a constitutive element of a people's cultural identity.

• model: A constitutive model for natural soils has been developed.

Modifying Another Word

• mutually: The painting becomes a dance, where artist and artwork are mutually constitutive.

• partly: In contrast, it is argued in this paper that legal relations are partly constitutive of reality.

• not: Therefore, programs by themselves are not constitutive of nor sufficient for minds.

• partially: It is, within virtue ethics, already conceived of as something of which virtue is at least partially constitutive.

• also: The interesting question is whether what God is in revelation is also constitutive for who God is in self-being.

• fundamentally: Equally, they recognize the fundamentally constitutive nature of language.

Used with adjective complement

• regard: Being struck by actuality is what we like to regard as constitutive of the actuality of the actual.