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For the office of attorney general, it should be dispositive.

Indeed, it seems that even love letters are not always dispositive.

You add, "There may never be a completely dispositive answer."

But race and ethnicity are not the dispositive factors here.

Ordinarily, such a record would be what lawyers call dispositive.

With no serious general election challenges in sight, the outcomes could well be dispositive.

Entertaining though such debates may be, they are not, as the lawyers might say, dispositive.

The most common type of dispositive motions are those for summary judgment.

Is it likely to be dispositive of whether I or other Democrats vote for him?

I believe that the tremendous inequity in power between them would have been dispositive.

The Court ruled, however, that this was not dispositive.

Every specific charge made in the movie similarly ignores extensive, for me dispositive, evidence.

They may also be assigned to write reports and recommendations to the district judge as to dispositive matters.

Traditions may establish rules of decision where there is no dispositive language in statute or other written law.

So their family planning factored heavily, but was not totally dispositive.

I see your point, but in my opinion it should not be dispositive of Cain's candidacy.

Of course, as noted above, no one factor of fair use is dispositive; all must be considered.

Meanwhile, the union plays for time, confident that eventually a legal mistake will give it the dispositive edge.

It was not entirely clear from the opinion whether lack of a private cause of action will always be dispositive in every case.

In many cases, a decision on a dispositive motion is a prerequisite for appellate review.

"But they will not be dispositive unless there wasn't consultation" between the White House and the senator.

The new realities are a dispositive answer to Gingrichism.

More important, the pattern that emerges from the accumulated weight of the reporting is, as the lawyers say, dispositive.

In Mayer's view this should have been dispositive, because he considered the claimed business method not to be within the useful arts.

Later holdings narrowed the nexus test so that no one factor became absolutely dispositive.