This shows that the law school seriously weighs many other diversity factors besides race that can make a real and dispositive difference for nonminority applicants as well.
"Ownership is not dispositive in a dispute between states over supplying water to citizens of both states," Mr. Raphael said.
Overall considers it dispositive: "A simplistic utilitarianism is wrong about the ethics of having children".
Of course, Isaac Newton's theory of gravity was undermined severely when it was revealed that his first and supposedly dispositive experiment -- an apple falling on his head -- was a childhood myth, just like Washington cutting down the cherry tree, or the theory of evolution.
A leaked email from the security firm Stratfor – hardly a dispositive source, but still probative – indicated that a sealed indictment has already been obtained against him.
And this produces the one aspect of the shutdown I'm almost cynical enough to enjoy myself: far from producing proof dispositive that government is a burdensome hindrance to personal freedom, they've simply proven how little personal freedom we can enjoy if government breaks down.
The author's tendency to take nobility at face value, to regard his subject's diary as a dispositive, blue-ribbon report, makes one welcome a pair of new books devoted to Adams's wife: Margery M. Heffron's "Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams" (Yale) and "A Traveled First Lady" (Harvard), a selection of Louisa Adams's private writings.
"But it is not a victory, much less a dispositive victory, in the political debate over how we should be processing war criminals".
His victory over cancer ("God said, 'Not yet!' ") is no less dispositive than his victory over a disconnected broiler in a Hopkins, Minnesota, Burger King ("I decided on the spot that two things would be required of me: leadership and a common sense approach to dealing with the problem").
One way to address this problem is by doing away with personhood as a dispositive legal category.
