How To Use Determinative In A Sentence

  • But the comparators that can be of evidential value, sometimes determinative of the case, are not so circumscribed.
  • In other words, it must be a factor which has some weight in the decision-making process although plainly it may not be determinative.
  • The tooth surface form has the determinative effect on the performances of a hypoid gear drive.
  • As so often, practical considerations of what a tribunal is prepared to infer as to a defendant's state of mind may be more determinative than fine matters of principle of what one legal concept adds to another.
  • The committal for trial may be helpful to the defence but it is not determinative.
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  • For example, depending upon whether or not the musician's albums made a profit, the fact that he hasn't received any royalties may not be determinative, if the agreement in question provided for the specialty company's right to recoup its expenses incurred in promoting and selling the albums, as a first charge against any profits received.
  • the determinative (or determinant) battle
  • But what gained greatest attention, especially from ranchers in the west, was his discovery in subsequent years of handsome skeletons of four of the progenitors of the horse: eohippus, mesohippus, miohippus and the crucial, determinative merychippus. Centennial
  • But, again, such standards are not necessarily determinative.
  • One major reason why we are so different than countries like France and Germany in this regard is the overwhelming and determinative role big corporate money plays in our political process and policies. Matthew Yglesias » Fighting About Modes of Delivery
  • The synthesis in such a conception cannot proceed a priori -- without the aid of experience -- to the intuition which corresponds to the conception; and, for this reason, none of these conceptions can produce a determinative synthetical proposition, they can never present more than a principle of the synthesis* of possible empirical intuitions. The Critique of Pure Reason
  • However, as between the Applicant and the Respondent my findings are determinative.
  • But such a questioner would indeed be a Pelagian, showing by his very question that he regarded the human side of the achievement as the prevenient, the conditioning, the determinative.
  • To this extent the principle ‘first served, first come’ will in practice operate; but for the reasons I have given it cannot be determinative.
  • We would submit that the way in which his reasoning is expressed, he regarded as determinative the very fact that this was the kind of activity that could have occurred outside the workplace.
  • This is a highly determinative molding of the brain-computer interlock, locking us into tight perceptual loops.
  • I do not consider the stipulated qualifications of the arbitrator to be a determinative indicator that the plaintiff's claims were not intended for arbitration.
  • The adjudicator's decision, although not finally determinative, may give rise to an immediate payment obligation.
  • Certain of the tablets contain lists of persons of both sexes, apparently denoted by their personal names, the signs which appear to stand for the name being followed in each case by an ideograph which is the determinative of 'man,' or 'woman,' as the case may be. The Sea-Kings of Crete
  • The determinative factors are industrial factor, comparative factor, technological factor and institutional factor.
  • We do not suggest that the note should be determinative.
  • On the other hand, it is not the sole and determinative factor.
  • Statements by ministers as to what the law is are no more determinative of the citizen's rights than similar statements by anyone else.
  • As indicated earlier, the wife had given notice to the husband almost from the outset of her intention to pursue maintenance, and I find that that is the determinative factor in awarding retroactive child support.
  • The question as to whether the doing of any such acts would in fact have been successful in preventing the acts of discrimination in question may be worth addressing, and may be interesting to address, but are not determinative either way.
  • They are instructive but are not determinative.
  • Nor should the courts give a ministerial statement, whether made inside or outside Parliament, determinative weight.
  • Most of them emphasize determinative effect of system on modern department.
  • The determinative issue is whether the proximate cause of the loss was the fire or the act of vandalism.
  • Again, though, this, by itself, is not determinative.
  • It is in the context of determining the scope of its own jurisdiction that a court will often make determinative findings in respect of the scope of the arbitration agreement.
  • It has spawned a generation who look back upon a single act, abstracted from its consequences, as determinative of salvation.
  • Although the terms of the initial letter are likely to be of great importance when seeking to answer that question, they will not necessarily be determinative.
  • While the Commission should consider the state of mind of the Respondents in deciding whether to exercise its public interest jurisdiction, it is not determinative.

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