"It's premature to talk about 'what if.' The one good thing about this process is that there is some certainty, some finality, rapidly approaching.
If a loved one dies in intensive care after discussions about advance directives and patient wishes — that is, after the family has been made fully aware of the finality of the situation — the psychological fallout is even greater, approaching 80 percent.
Over the past week, with filing deadlines approaching, Clinton winning praise for her debate performance in Las Vegas and polls showing Biden slipping, the vice president's window of viability closed quickly and with finality.
Of course, the needs of filmic storytelling are different from those of serialized comic books, so it's understandable that Nolan approached the project with a clear beginning, middle and end in mind, with an elegiac tone to the proceedings as the air of finality begins to settle in.
Very different legal systems have shared a common approach of emphasizing the finality of criminal convictions, thereby making it very difficult to claim innocence by relying on new evidence uncovered post-trial.
There was a sense of finality after finally emerging victorious.
But the Senate president, John McKay, said, "It appears we have finality and perhaps our cautious approach has paid off.
But J. T. continues to resist the finality, running to the door in White Plains, ears perked, each time a car approaches.
If that finality may be swept aside with the ease exhibited by the Court's approach today, prosecutors will have a reduced incentive to bargain, to the detriment of the many defendants for whom plea bargaining offers the only hope for ameliorating the consequences to them of a serious criminal charge.
The approach adopted by the court in Thornton and pressed upon us here exalts the value of finality in criminal judgments at the expense of the interest of each prisoner in the vindication of his constitutional rights.
