However, few would accept as definitive even the contemporaneous refusal by a suicidal patient of treatment that would, more or less quickly and easily, restore him or her to health.
Not definitive, just definite.
Yet friends of Mr. Volcker, Mr. Whitehead and Mr. Wriston all indicate that their candidates' refusal was not definitive and that they might still be persuaded.
George W. Bush, drew ire from both extremes of the political spectrum for its refusal to pass definitive judgment, positive or negative, on its subject.
But in a debate against nonscientists, that refusal to be definitive can be a weakness, leaving the door perpetually open for plausible-sounding refutations built on shaky evidence and a willingness to forthrightly state conclusions.
Recently, the company acquired industry-leading companies in Colombia, Argentina, Jamaica, and a right of first offer and refusal in Brazil through a definitive share purchase agreement with Scythian Biosciences Inc.
Eight patients were not resected either due to comorbidities (n = 3), persistent contralateral lymph node involvement at remediastinoscopy (n = 3), or patients' refusal (n = 2), and received definitive radiochemotherapy (n = 5), or palliative treatment (n = 3), respectively.
So far, the definitive distinction between the two opposition leaders is Trudeau's refusal to consider joining a coalition government to ensure a Conservative defeat in the event of a hung parliament, as current polls suggest is likely.
The ritual burial of the dead, which is thus attested from the very dawn of human culture and which has been practiced in most parts of the world, stems from an instinctive inability or refusal on the part of man to accept death as the definitive end of human life.
A refusal by the nation's highest court to take the case would also mark a definitive rebuttal to the Bush campaign's assault on the legitimacy of the Florida process.
