Sentence examples for decisively settle from inspiring English sources
Reid's argument does not decisively settle the question of whether or not human conduct comes about in accordance with laws linking it to prior motives.
In any event, the interrelationships among suicide's moral permissibility, its rationality, and the duties of others and of society as a whole is complex, and we should be wary of assuming that an answer to any one of these four questions decisively settles the other three.
Mr. Twombly's decision to settle permanently in southern Italy in 1957 as the art world shifted decisively in the other direction, from Europe to New York, was only the most symbolic of his idiosyncrasies.
In his very last work, completed only days before his death, al-Ghazâlî discusses whether God creates "through the mediation" (bi-wâsita) of his creations or not, and maintains that the matter cannot be settled decisively (al-Ghazâlî 1985, 68 69).
Oswald Avery showed in 1943 that DNA was likely the genetic material of the chromosome, not its protein; the issue was settled decisively with the 1952 Hershey Chase experiment one of many contributions from the so-called phage group centered around physicist-turned-biologist Max Delbrück.
It helps and prods and forces students to engage in their learning and in the world, to confront the assumptions they make and the lives that they lead, to learn to ask difficult questions rather than settle for easy answers, to think deeply and act decisively.
Orquera landed a beauty of a penalty from distance and the Stadio Olimpico roared in expectation, but it was the visitors instead who struck decisively as the contest settled.
