determinative

How To Use determinative In A Sentence

• Nor should the courts give a ministerial statement, whether made inside or outside Parliament, determinative weight.
• 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.
• The adjudicator's decision, although not finally determinative, may give rise to an immediate payment obligation.