I guess you've got to believe that, at the margin, he would be somewhat helpful, but not determinative necessarily.
"The key," he said, "is studying the similarities and differences and understanding that history is informative but not determinative".
The court held that the plaintiff must prove that the retaliation was not just a motivating factor in a negative action like a demotion but the determinative factor.
"What is a significant but not determinative factor in other states," Professor Dow of the University of Houston said, "basically in Texas is the whole ball of wax".
Tristram Stuart, author of Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, said: "Since when does the CPS make a decision about public interest based on the interests of a large company?" A CPS spokesman said: "Representations made by Iceland were relevant, but not determinative".
University affiliation is influential but not determinative for CEOs.
His support was helpful but hardly determinative, hardly that important".
In this context, the engineering is nice, but not determinative of how to make a service work for consumers.
"One piece of data may very well be a factoid, of some but not determinative significance," Grossman said.
"One piece of data may very well be a factoid, of some but not determinative significance," Harvey Grossman, legal director at ACLU Illinois, told The Huffington Post in an interview in June.
