Sentence examples for determinative issue from inspiring English sources

Like the great struggles over civil rights and race, the most determinative issue is attitudinal.

Indeed it is only because of the application of international rules to resolve other issues that the act of state doctrine becomes the determinative issue in this case.

Whatever the merits of a government-run option, it is not the determinative issue of a successful transformation of health care, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the White House and academic experts.

In the present case, after the defendants had been convicted, the Government came forward with evidence tending to show not merely that one among many witnesses but that its major witness had lied, not in other proceedings but on the central and determinative issue in this very case.

Our most powerful and determinative battle, however, has not been a military conflict.

And normally, in a normal presidential contest, this would be a determinative matter.

And my separation from them was I believe that I was following the probable result standard set out in Strickland v. Washington, versus the outcome determinative result that they were going on.... SENATOR KENNEDY -- Did Senator Ashcroft ever raise these issues with you prior to the vote in 1999?

For many of them, it is a determinative voting issue.

A dramatic experiment by Shinya Yamanaka and colleagues illustrates the determinative effect of regulatory proteins.

"In my judgment, the making of that offer, and the failure to accept it by Mr Mitchell, is ultimately determinative of the issue of whether or not it was reasonable to incur the costs of two legal teams at the trial of the preliminary issue, subject of course to the costs judge determining whether there was unreasonable duplication or that costs have been unreasonably increased".

The judge, Mr Justice Mitting, said Mr Mitchell's refusal to accept an offer to settle one of the libel cases was "determinative" of the issue.