The cycle doesn't have a beginning, a center or a conclusive ending.
But even if a single battle is won, there is no conclusive ending, meaning that the war still rages on".
Because Beatty stops short of a conclusive ending, "Tuff" is ultimately a portrait of a promisingly blank slate, someone whose decisions are influenced by random events and fleeting alliances, someone whose intellect might not be his most practical asset and certainly is not all he needs to turn his life around.
Much has been made, though to no conclusive end, of the allusions to Virgil's blood-foaming Tiber made both in one of Hill's Mercian Hymns (begun in 1968) and Enoch Powell's notorious "rivers of blood" speech (also 1968).
Although there is no generally accepted evidence that death is not the conclusive end of life, it is a tenet of some religions (e.g., of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islām) that death is followed by everlasting life elsewhere in sheol, hell, or heaven and that eventually there will be a universal physical resurrection.
While one Hamas official said the group was considering its reaction, others in the group's political and military wings rejected the initiative outright, claiming they had only found about it through the media and were angry that it did not deal with some of the group's major demands: a conclusive end of Israel and Egypt's blockade on Gaza, and the release of certain prisoners from Israeli jails.
Despite the fairly conclusive end to fighting that went with their surrender to the allies in 1945, the Japanese were pretty adamant about maintaining sovereignty over at least some of the Kuril Islands.
The series finale of "Breaking Bad" brought Walter White's story to a conclusive end Sunday night, but how the last eight episodes would actually unfold was not always a foregone conclusion.
The development team wanted the game to bring a conclusive end to the story of both Lightning and the XIII universe, and to address criticisms leveled against the last two games.
THE thrill was palpable after the unexpected announcement on May 2nd by Atal Behari Vajpayee, India's prime minister, that he wanted to start a "decisive and conclusive dialogue" aimed at ending the decades of hostility between his country and Pakistan.
Before ending the operation, conclusive 2D-fluoroscopic images and a conclusive 3D-RX-scan are being performed.
