Sentence examples for but not determinative from inspiring English sources

University affiliation is influential but not determinative for CEOs.

In this context, the engineering is nice, but not determinative of how to make a service work for consumers.

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".

"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".

Degrees matter, but they're not determinative.

Over time, those have included the idea that it could not be known who had interfered in the election – he has variously blamed a 400-pound person in his bed; someone in New Jersey; or some unknown country other than Russia – but that whoever it was, the meddling was not determinative.

I conclude that the application of the erroneous standards is not determinative in this case.

The Republican vote was "definitely not determinative of whether or not Clinton won those states," said Professor McDonald.

"Whether the regime is doing better or the opposition is doing better is frankly not determinative of that outcome because the outcome requires a transition government," he said, referring to efforts to negotiate a political settlement.