Adjective : a dispositive clue in a case of embezzlement. From Dictionary.com.
I'm not running around saying "dispositive" all the time, but if I feel my anglophone friend can understand me, I'll use the word. From Wordnik.com. [Expat Foul!] Reference
In that case, we held that a public use had occurred, finding "dispositive" the fact that the patentee. From Wordnik.com. [I/P Updates] Reference
I don't think that 2006, by itself, is dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference
Not sure if these figures are dispositive of anything. From Wordnik.com. [Exit Polls: "Change" Beating "Experience" By Big Margins In Ohio And Texas] Reference
FEINSTEIN: Well, I think the tape is very dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2001] Reference
I still don't accept that AIPAC's role was dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [House Dem Leadership's Bill On Iraq Obtained] Reference
I think that that is, to me, dispositive in this matter. From Wordnik.com. [Vp Gore Press Briefing On Breyer Confirmation] Reference
EPSTEIN: The most dispositive thing is the CNN interview. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2002] Reference
None of this is to suggest that grades should be dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [Grading the Candidates] Reference
Two days ago, I spoke with Your Honor on dispositive motions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Vote: Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Challenge to Absentee Ballots in Seminole County - December 7, 2000] Reference
But that's not quite a dispositive answer to the question, is it?. From Wordnik.com. [Transatlantic Ties] Reference
Again, none of these factors are dispositive in and of themselves. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2003] Reference
So the outcome, while relevant, isn't dispositive of good judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Ratchets Up Attacks On Hillary: "Too Willing To Give President A Blank Check"] Reference
It's an ok answer and your rejoinder is ok, too, but not dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race] Reference
"I don't think it's going to be a dispositive issue in the election.". From Wordnik.com. [44: Judgment day for Charlie Rangel] Reference
Why is color something so dispositive (ph) in the minds of most people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2007] Reference
The facts, however, are not just not in her favor - they are dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [NARAL Affiliates Question Mothership's Endorsement Of Obama] Reference
I don't think it's dispositive, either, and I don't mean to suggest that. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference
HERMAN: No, for the totality of circumstances, which will be dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2007] Reference
That's not necessarily dispositive, in my view, whether he does or doesn't. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2006] Reference
One was a dispositive cause; this was on the part of man, and in three ways. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Because I think that that could possibly be dispositive of this entire case. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 29, 2003] Reference
Though I admire Obama's early stand against the war, I don't find it dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Hits Back Hard Against Hillary's "Security Mom" Ad] Reference
In most courts, the wishes of a 9 - year-old are not going to be dispositive (ph). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009] Reference
And clearly, the blood test or the DNA test is going to be dispositive of that issue. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2007] Reference
That is more relevant but still not dispositive in the way Kaplan and Newman imagined. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
TUSHNET: Yes, I think that the dispositive issues are going to be in the Florida courts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Florida Supreme Court Halts Certification of Vote Totals; Counties Counting Overseas Ballots - November 17, 2000] Reference
And were the amount of ballots involved dispositive of the election like it appears to be here?. From Wordnik.com. [Minneapolis Gives Up On Finding The Missing Ballots] Reference
Why not include other contests where the results are not dispositive to the aggregate "vote" count?. From Wordnik.com. [A Developing Compromise For Florida And Michigan?] Reference
But we had a case just recently, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld which I think was dispositive on the legal justification. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2006] Reference
While our pasts are useful to some extent in judging what types of persons we are, they are not dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [New Ad: NH Newspapers Back Hillary] Reference
There is no dispositive moment on the tape when a reasonable person -- say, a judge or jury -- would exclaim: Ah ha!. From Wordnik.com. [Sleaze and Sleazier: The Clemens Saga] Reference
There ` s a lot of things here, Nancy, that seven-minute conversation he had with his wife is going to be dispositive. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2007] Reference
And the complaints that arguably have some merit on their face cannot be dispositive against John McCain for Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Top Dem Party Officials Send Sharply-Worded Email Demanding That Hillary Donors And Supporters Get Behind Obama] Reference
Q Under the new screening system, to go back for just a second, the NSC view of a visitor is still not dispositive, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
It was a technical matter -- we saw that as a technical action by the court and not one that was dispositive of the issue. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
Rove's comments may affect national favorables/unfavorables, but I strongly doubt that they're dispositive for Dem caucus-goers. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Debate Roundup] Reference
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