The war — which has been winding down in phases with a drawdown of troops that started in 2009 — will not end definitively until the last American soldier leaves Iraqi soil in the next few weeks.
If victims' advocates have their way, the haunting will not end as definitively as the movie does.
"Having considered it thoroughly and on the advice of my doctors, it's time to bow to the evidence and accept that my career ends here, definitively, even though it's tough, very tough when I was coming back with great desire.
But Chief Justice John Roberts's successive opinions in defense of the Affordable Care Act — National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, in 2012, and then, last week, King v. Burwell — have definitively ended the debate about the legality of Obamacare.
When the century's other great choreographer, Frederick Ashton, died in 1988, followed by his British compatriot Kenneth MacMillan in 1992, it seemed that a great age of ballet had definitively ended.
(The Danish theatre, having definitively ended a somewhat intermittent existence after the devastating Copenhagen fire of October 1728, reopened in 1747, and he resumed his playwriting, but these plays were never to be as successful as the earlier ones).
But the final episode trashed all that, turning a programme that could have ended on a definitively elegant grace note into a cack-handed murder mystery that thudded in out of nowhere and clunked everyone across the head in the blind hope that we'd all be too concussed to realise how stupid it was.
On Sunday, in a sign that the presidential campaign had definitively ended and that the fast-forming administration had become the focal point, the faces of Mr. Obama's new team appeared across the spectrum of Sunday talk shows, a changing of the guard more than two months before he officially assumes power.
A long period of flirtation with MLS, during which the Cosmos were the presumed frontrunners for the second New York franchise, was definitively ended a couple of weeks ago with the confirmation of a partnership between the New York Yankees and Manchester City, to form New York City FC.
Thatcher definitively ended a truly poisonous, envious, inert period in Britain's history: http://t.co/0pb7ECphqA — Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) 8 Apr 13 The writer Andrew Sullivan, who credits his "entire political obsession" to Margaret Thatcher posted a tribute on his blog, The Dish: I was a teenage Thatcherite, an uber-politics nerd who loved her for her utter lack of apology for who she was.
