Sentence examples for The dispositive from inspiring English sources

"The dispositive difference between this case and Geier — indeed, the only difference — is the majority's 'psychoanalysis' of the regulators," Justice Thomas wrote.

The dispositive question is whether progressives' bark is worse than their bite.

"For the studios, that's the dispositive factor".

That brings us back to a slight mystery: the dispositive quality of oathiness.

To be sure, you wouldn't want the candidates' age to be the dispositive factor governing your choice for president.

But the dispositive fact of Camp David is this: Barak made an offer, and Arafat walked out without making a counter-offer.

Perhaps the most dispositive theory about YC is that the power of its network obviates other theories.

That the references are far and away the most dispositive information about [whether] someone [is] capable of doing amazing things.

If Blasey was assaulted, a particularly astute informant advised me, "Kavanaugh wasn't her attacker" ― omitting, to my distress, the source of this dispositive insight.

On May 4, The New York Times announced that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would voluntarily repatriate twin 10th century statues to Cambodia, after the museum received "dispositive" evidence that the pieces were products of the illicit antiquities trade.

This is a strange argument--the Fifth Amendment is dispositive evidence that the Framers did not leave property rights to be protected entirely through the political process, and the relevant question is what those protections consist in.