Sentence examples for determinative question from inspiring English sources

But the determinative question is not how much the hospital charges for what it does, but what the hospital does.

How difficult may end up being the determinative question of Mr. Giuliani's unorthodox campaign, as well as the next 10 years of Republican Party politics.

Intricate as it sounds, the interpretation of Section 5 may answer a determinative question: Is there any issue of federal law in this case, or is it only a matter of Florida law?

4. We think that, under the constitutional provision, the determinative question in reference to an "adjournment" is not whether it is a final adjournment of Congress or an interim adjournment, such as an adjournment of the first session, but whether it is one that "prevents" the President from returning the bill to the House in which it originated within the time allowed.

The several grounds of demurrer, addressed to the complaint, revolve around the one question determinative of this appeal.

* * * The fact that certiorari from the Supreme Court to the state court may be called a federal remedy is not determinative of the question here involved.

He took a "literal" or absolutist reading of the provisions of the Bill of Rights and believed that the text of the Constitution is absolutely determinative on any question calling for judicial interpretation, leading to his reputation as a "textualist" and as a "strict constructionist".

But when the only purpose of review under state law can be to secure decision of federal questions and no more appears from the state court's order than that the application for review was denied, this Court has refused to allow a presumption that the denial was on state grounds only to cut off review here of federal constitutional questions determinative of the citizen's liberty.

'It is not determinative of the present question that the commerce act as now construed will render the contract of no value for the purposes for which it was made.

We do not address the question found to be determinative in Mr. Justice POWELL'S opinion concurring in the result.

For the determination of effects at national level, the research question is - amongst other factors - determinative for the choice of model listed in the 'Background' section.