'conclusively settled' is correct and usable in written English.
It usually implies that a dispute or argument has been definitively resolved. For example, "The court ruled conclusively settled the property dispute between the two families."
And while the vote wound up yesterday at a spirited, and sometimes rowdy, shareholder meeting in Silicon Valley, the matter has not been conclusively settled.
What he seemed to forget was that literature isn't science: that its disputes are never conclusively settled, however eminent one's authorities may be, and that readers simply go wherever the life is at a given moment.
"While we have not confirmed the details of the ruling, we understand that all such claims between the two countries, including compensation for interned laborers, have been completely and conclusively settled under official state agreements," a spokesman for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said in a statement reacting to the Busan court's ruling.
While the foreign exchange issue was not conclusively settled -- Mr. Geithner reiterated his statement over the weekend that the test would be in how far China moved, and how fast -- the Chinese announcement allows the administration to focus on Europe, where growth is lagging far behind East Asia and North America.
Clearly, further work is needed before the question of universal tendencies in the prosodic encoding of politeness can be conclusively settled.
It argues that the competition between these two opposed frames of reference was never conclusively settled, but involved a reassertion of science-based R&D, which was ultimately decisive for long-term success.
Only further experiments will conclusively settle the matter.
Moreover, Syson does not accept that scientific evidence can conclusively settle debates over the authenticity of pictures such as the Isleworth Mona Lisa.
Somehow, they scrambled home to a Tri-Nations victory which was only settled conclusively with three minutes left.
First, the intellectual stakes are higher, because unlike our endless debates over the optimal health care policy or the wisest counterterrorism strategy, it will actually be settled, conclusively, only a week from now.
Thus, the debate has not been settled conclusively (for a hybrid state-of-the-art model, see [15]).
