What is "conclusive"

Usage examples of "conclusive".

In her presence he took apart the arguments in the acta and proved to the Abbess that none of them was conclusive.

French Anglophobic patriotism was not a conclusive demonstration to the British government that there could be no reasonable negotiations with revolutionary France.

Congress, therefore, could not authorize the Supreme Court to take appeals from an auditor or require it to express an opinion in a case where its judicial power could not be exercised, where its judgment would not be final and conclusive upon the parties, and where processes of execution were not awarded to carry it into effect.

This is not absolutely conclusive evidence, but because of it I have preferred to class Avenzoar among the Arabian physicians.

Additionally, a number of artifacts and archeological sites, although not conclusive, strongly suggested the presence of humans in the Americas long before the firmly documented and widely accepted Clovis sites.

He announced a rally at Madison Square Garden at which he would offer conclusive proof that domestic bees were still safe.

Should it ever be known hereafter, at a time when he stood before the people as a candidate for some high political trust, that he had tamely submitted to the infliction of a cowskin, the revelation would be fatal to all his hopes of ambition, and conclusive against all his social pretensions.

Only last year, Dakotan researchers found conclusive evidence that a comet came through our solar system and disrupted the orbits of all the inner planets, yours included.

Young Irelanders or Protestants, they palliated them, or denied them in the face of evidence which was conclusive.

Uniformitarianism will crumble away when we present conclusive proof that modern landforms were chiefly shaped by the waters of the Noachian deluge.

Nor can he rightfully complain because the statute renders conclusive, after said hearing, the determination as to apportionment by the same body which levied the assessment.

If any further proof were wanted of the manysidedness of truth, and the widely divergent points of view whence those who are closest to us must behold us, a record of the various opinions that one poor, unpretending photograph will elicit would be one of the most conclusive.

But the arguments which these European philosophers have used raise doubtful proofs and are not conclusive.

Numerous and conclusive proofs exist that go to show that this infinite world cannot end with this human life.

He initially chose to temper his remarks about the pictures and X rays themselves by claiming that the incomplete state of the evidence made a conclusive determination of the source of the shots impossible.