Definition of "constituting" []

• Present participle of constitute. (verb)

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• "Paris, a Middle East fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York from 1995 to 2000, stated that other spotlights would be Pakistan - which he described as constituting the "prize" -, "the most pivotal state in the Middle East," Egypt, with President Hosni Mubarak's succession pending, and Iraq where "corruption" of the Baghdad government would be the core problem without mentioning Obama's promise to withdraw occupation forces there."
• "I realize, of course, that he follows this with a kind of pragmatic incantation, for he says that in constituting respectively material and procedural means, the two types of propositions are conjugate, or functionally correspondent."
• "A settlement could be in fact reached around the provisional term “Republic of Northern Macedonia” (with the geographic term constituting a condition sine qua non for Athens), originally proposed by Matthew Nimitz, UN mediator in the negotiation over the dispute."