The argument that its preamble — that "well regulated Militia" bit — is meant to define the area of argument seems to many to be decisive.
As the recent experimental investigations indicated, the robustness of masonry units is one among the most decisive parameters which define the behaviour of masonry walls when subjected to seismic loads.
In order to define it, the philosopher Claude Helvetius had used words that concur with Burke's: "the sensation of a terror begun" of which delight is a decisive constituent (A Treatise on Man, Section VIII Ch. XIV, p. 232).
We celebrate them as decisive men who, by making the right choices, seemed to define and control the events of their times.
Therefore, the methods used by certain philosophers in various currents of the Chinese tradition, are by no means decisive for defining the positions of the subject and the object of comprehension, or the nature of their mutual relations.
Again it is interesting to note the crucial role of a metabolite which suggests that the integration of diverse cellular processes and the environment in which the cell resides is decisive on defining the pattern of genes that will be expressed or repressed.
The complementary assets held by oil and gas companies can have a decisive influence in defining the DD and, as a result, contributes to maintaining their position as industry leaders despite major technological changes in fuels.
The country now stands at a decisive turning point, not just in regard to the Iraq crisis, but in how it means to define its role in the post-cold-war world.
First, we need to define a plan: a set of policies and principles that we expect the next Congress to take immediate and decisive action on to ensure our vessel remains seaworthy.
The term "define" refers to the first context; "decisive" to the second.
