Sentence examples for decisive weight from inspiring English sources

In the U.S., prices above cost are usually given decisive weight.

Yesterday the supreme court ruled for the first time that prenuptial agreements should have "decisive weight" in English divorce courts.

Appeal judges had ruled that "decisive weight" should be given to the agreement signed before he married that he would make no claims on Katrin Radmacher's fortune.

Whatever the effect of Avena and LaGrand before this withdrawal, it is doubtful that our courts should give decisive weight to the interpretation of a tribunal whose jurisdiction in this area is no longer recognized by the United States.

Because it did not recognize this 'complex of values,' Blackburn, supra, underlying the exclusion of involuntary confessions, Stein also ignored the pitfalls in giving decisive weight to the jury's assumed determination of the facts surrounding the disputed confession.

As Freud noted: "The insoluble conflict between the claims of humanity, which normally carries decisive weight for a physician, and the demands of a national war was bound to confuse this activity".

But today, the Supreme Court, the highest in the land, ruled by a majority of eight justices to one that in the right cases, a pre-nup can have decisive or compelling weight.

We combine Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) with worth-of-data analysis and investigate how decisive the model weights are under different selections of data types.

His feet hurt, but his knees hurt more... It's a decisive struggle: shift the weight, yes or no, distribute the pain, yes or no.

The identification of its spectrum and the determination of its atomic weight have been decisive facts for convincing chemists of the reality of the new elements.

As weight was the decisive characteristic in Lavoisier's theory, Dalton stressed the importance of ascertaining the relative weights of atoms and the number of elementary atoms that constitute one compound "atom".