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"definitive statement" is a statement that is clear, decisive, and leaves no room for doubt or uncertainty. It is something that is seen as the final answer or conclusion on a particular topic.
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In a way, this comes as a relief, if only because the series seemed poised to make some sort of
definitive statement about this couple and why they're together.
Its ambiguous title, a
seemingly definitive statement, invites us to consider the relationship between the use of language as a means of communicating and our understanding of the world through physical experience.
At another level, paradox is seen in the fact that any statement about the world implies that other possibilities were also available, thus rendering
even definitive statements contingent.
For if we were able to
make definitive statements about what the future might bring, we could develop accordingly, again, extending our ability to control adverse effects.
At the time of her death, possibly the last surviving artist of the first - generation of the New York School, Hedda Sterne viewed her widely varied works more as in flux than
as definitive statements.
[11:07 p.m. Updated The Guardian provides an even more
definitive statement from a senior Japanese official: «Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances.»]
although our results are generally similar to the O+B and earlier studies, we cautiously conclude that there really is not enough data prior to ~ 1400 to make
such definitive statements about comparing MWP and recent conditions — at least at these large scales.
The most
definitive statement yet on FEMA's intentions came after Gov. Ricardo Rossello's government asked the emergency agency to clarify reports of a shutdown of supplies.
I was very interested to see the
pretty definitive statements in last week's Daily Mail «Spoon - fed babies are «more likely to become obese» because their bodies don't recognise when they are full» and in the Independent «Spoonfed babies more likely to be overweight».
At least Randi is willing to admit that he does not know very much about it [climate and climate science] and will therefore refrain from making definitive statements [opinions will be given, however, based on what he does know] about a subject he knows little about, instead of spending a week at the University of Google, which, apparently, is all you need to become a Climate Expert ™.
It would be nice to
see definitive statements that at least rank the physical causality possibilities, and supporting data, that seem to be at work at this time.
What's in the March budget document is becoming a
less definitive statement on new spending and taxation measures that could impact you.
Was a time his gift for how ordinary people talked and thought translated
into definitive statements about the United States; now it seems that all he uses it for is passing, fleeting music in otherwise earthbound productions.
1986 Paintings and Sculptures by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, New York,
NY Definitive Statements - American Art: 1964 — 66, David Winston Bell Gallery, The List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI; and Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY 0 - 1 +2, Galleria Chisel, Milan, ItalySelected 20th Century Paintings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Abstraction by American Masters over 50, RH Love Modern, Chicago, IL
Many writers, critics and theorists made assertions about vanguard culture during the formative years of modernism, although the
initial definitive statement on the avant - garde was the essay Avant - Garde and Kitsch by New York art critic Clement Greenberg, published in Partisan Review in 1939.
[UPDATE, 6/3: I made the change above after receiving an email from Roberto Bertollini, an official at the World Health Organization, who pointed out that the I.P.C.C. chapter specifically on health impacts of climate change begins with a
nearly definitive statement on a warming - health connection: «Climate change currently contributes to the global burden of disease and premature deaths (very high confidence).»
So, in the end, Dr. Pielke appears to say, closer scrutiny of the surface - temperature data could
undermine definitive statements of all kinds — that human - driven warming is an unfolding catastrophe or something concocted.
On that issue, the potential complexities regarding phytoplankton community composition, ecological interactions, and anthropogenic impacts (such as changing iron supply, pollution, fishing) make
definitive statements extremely uncertain (and I would guess one of the sources of humility in the reviewers that would allow them to acknowledge the possibility that the Boyce result was possible).
I have sometimes perhaps been too eager to
challenge definitive statements related to human - driven global warming for fear they will provide ammunition to those working to foment doubt and maintain stasis on our energy menu.
At the time of her death, possibly the last surviving artist of the first generation of the New York School, Hedda Sterne viewed her widely varied works more as in flux than
as definitive statements.
But listen to Tuesday's revelations with caution — there's not enough data to make
definitive statements yet about the Higgs, said Joe Incandela, chief spokesperson for the LHC's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment as of January.
Unfortunately, the CEA press release also fails to make a strong and
definitive statement of support for a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core Test.
But the movie does have an air of cautiousness about it, trying so hard to be a respectful,
definitive statement on WWII (and often succeeding) that it sometimes feels cadaverous.
The ambiguous title of her sculpture, There Can Be No Arguments, 2010 is a
seemingly definitive statement that invites us to consider its relationship to the materials comprising the work — in this case baby pink plaster powder clinging to the surface of a large polythene sheet.
The
most definitive statement we can make about the future of X-ray crystallography is that it has no future in its present form.
Making
definitive statements about whether this individual was the source of the virus, it's highly probable, but definitively, no we can't say that.»