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  • The coroner, Dr. Rose Lambert, said that although there was some evidence that Mr. Hyde may have deliberately taken his own life, that evidence was not conclusive.†   (source)
  • You said the bones would be conclusive!†   (source)
  • The Vola-tiles have done conclusive studies that show how humankind's usefulness is past and from this point on human beings constitute a threat to the Core.†   (source)
  • In an inspection of the building, however, its agents had been unable to find anything they could identify conclusively as a Merchant product.†   (source)
  • That sounds very conclusive.†   (source)
  • Investigators argued that it would be difficult to prove "conclusively" that Peterson had "willfully" lied.†   (source)
  • Still, he managed to find out that Fermina Daza had been invited to a Saturday dance a few days after their arrival in the city, and her father had not allowed her to go, with a conclusive: "Everything in due course."†   (source)
  • When we reported back to the Vice Chancellor there was no way to gather conclusive evidence without human studies, we thought he understood it was a dead end.†   (source)
  • If the relationship between mind and matter had been fought over for centuries and wasn't yet resolved, why should he, in a matter of a few weeks, come up with something conclusive about Quality?†   (source)
  • Dede kept trying to call Minerva, but the line was truly, conclusively down, and the operator became annoyed.†   (source)
  • And the catheads had sat down on themselves with the conclusiveness of a fat woman sitting in an easy chair.†   (source)
  • We have records of at least three letters to a friend in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that seem to prove conclusively that Mrs. White believed, from her fifth month on, that she had "a cancer of the womanly parts" and would soon join her husband in heaven….†   (source)
  • "Well," he said conclusively, "however much you pray it doesn't shorten your stretch.†   (source)
  • And I think that his performance after the voting furor today is as conclusive an indication as we can have of what to expect in the future.†   (source)
  • Studies on the impact of abstinence-only programs aren't conclusive and seem to depend to some extent on the ideology of those conducting the study.†   (source)
  • Third," the older, more experienced partner continued, "and most important, what we have on Dr. Rudolph is hardly conclusive evidence that he's our squirrel.†   (source)
  • He remembers reading this and thinking then, like now, how his attraction to math has always sprung from its conclusiveness, the way you could, on your own, get to a lone, irrefutable answersomething no one could take away-and how this series stuff is something else, how it's all about just getting close.†   (source)
  • But when Kara ran in, Raison insisted the results weren't conclusive.†   (source)
  • And believe me, it was combed for a leak, but nothing conclusive was found.†   (source)
  • The process is more conclusive and certainly more beneficial when run within twenty-four hours of an incident.†   (source)
  • Neither could he know whether Alex or Krupkin had survived; the car's windows had been pierced repeatedly and there was no sign of movement inside, both facts suggesting the worst but nothing conclusive.†   (source)
  • With an air of having settled that point conclusively he turned his attention elsewhere.†   (source)
  • "It is terrible," said Mr. Lukens conclusively, glancing again at Max.†   (source)
  • She said, her voice strained with the effort of trying to force understanding, "I will submit to you all the information necessary to form a conclusive judgment."†   (source)
  • Nothing conclusive.†   (source)
  • And we will show conclusively that there is no possible way that these men or the children could be legal slaves of Cuba or any other country subject to the Treaty of 1819.†   (source)
  • When its lessons are unambiguous, they should be regarded as conclusive.†   (source)
  • And yet no one has been able to conclusively determine what the telegram alluded to.†   (source)
  • The ship at J-City is the only one I can see; the other landings I conclusively infer from the ballistics shown by blip tracks.†   (source)
  • While not absolutely conclusive as far as wolves were concerned, evidence that my metabolic functions remained unimpaired under a mouse regimen would strongly indicate that wolves, too, could survive and function normally on the same diet.†   (source)
  • It's been proved conclusively in every field.†   (source)
  • It isn't very conclusive.†   (source)
  • I was silent for a long moment, trying to absorb as best I could all this information which validated so conclusively the misgivings I had had about Nathan—misgivings and suspicions which up until now I had successfully repressed.†   (source)
  • Both of them proved their cases conclusively.†   (source)
  • LOGICIAN: That wouldn't be conclusive either.†   (source)
  • the evidence is conclusive
  • "Image-density analysis was conclusive," Nola said.†   (source)
  • The sign of the Death Hallows on Ignotus's grave is conclusive proof!†   (source)
  • "Bishop Aringarosa," the secretariat said, his voice conclusive.†   (source)
  • At several points, he'd overwhelmed his clone and struck what should have been a conclusive blow.†   (source)
  • "No, just the tall one," said Mum conclusively.†   (source)
  • And it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive.†   (source)
  • We can't conclusively say that the Enemy is involved.†   (source)
  • The rest is conclusive inference, probability above point nine nine.†   (source)
  • "Too thin," she said with a conclusive frown.†   (source)
  • "This is it," he said conclusively, glancing at his watch.†   (source)
  • OLD GENTLEMAN: Even that wouldn't be conclusive.†   (source)
  • And yet there was no conclusive proof one way or the other.†   (source)
  • Conclusive evidence.†   (source)
  • The Council would wait until they had conclusive data on the radiation levels, regardless of what was happening on Earth.†   (source)
  • In a very few cases she would accept a gift, as long as it was not made of gold, and she managed everything with so much skill that no one could have presented conclusive evidence of improper conduct.†   (source)
  • Despite the discovery of tainted ground beef in the restaurant freezer, the Arkansas Department of Health could not conclusively link IBP meat to the El Dorado E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak.†   (source)
  • When the killer finally pulled his arm free, the casket fell with a conclusive thud against the flat marble floor.†   (source)
  • Conclusive spectrographic analysis has yet to be completed, but preliminary testing by Clausen and one of his graduate students, Edward Treadwell, indicates that the seeds definitely contains traces of an alkaloid.†   (source)
  • The results were conclusive and irrefutable, with the potential to transform skeptics into believers and affect global consciousness on a massive scale.†   (source)
  • The police report was conclusive.†   (source)
  • All Clarke hoped was that their research proved conclusive so that the experiments could stop, so that these test subjects wouldn't have suffered in vain.†   (source)
  • Conclusively.†   (source)
  • Before long the matching would be done and they would know conclusively if Kemp had been the one who had turned the downstairs floor upside down.†   (source)
  • Not conclusive in our way of thinking.†   (source)
  • Mami shakes her head conclusively.†   (source)
  • And until more data came in, Ricki wasn't in the position to be absolutely conclusive one way or the other.†   (source)
  • The latest scientific discoveries-such as the tremendous achievements of Dr. Robert Stadler-have demonstrated conclusively that our reason is incapable of dealing with the nature of the universe.†   (source)
  • The reason the prison couldn't get a conclusive explanation is because they were looking in the pipes, not outside them," Ahmed said.†   (source)
  • But not conclusive.†   (source)
  • He helped Whitaker transport Crash to the shower cell—the investigation into our bacchanal tap water had yielded nothing conclusive, apparently, except some mold in the pipes, and we were now allowed personal hygiene hours again.†   (source)
  • There's nothing you want to see in there," he said quickly before coughing conclusively into his sleeve.†   (source)
  • Because I was commuting and because I wished to prove conclusively that it was possible to commute, I never took a day off or failed to make the crossing on account of the prevailing weather conditions.†   (source)
  • I was eating bananas in Raleigh, North Carolina, I thought, thinking this not for the first time since I had known Sophie, yet perhaps for the first time in my life aware of the meaning of the Absurd, and its conclusive, unrevocable horror.†   (source)
  • I felt I had come to the end of my trouble and hankering, and it was conclusive.†   (source)
  • They're more than perturbing; they're conclusive.†   (source)
  • In the great processional of the years through which the history of the Gants was evolving, few years had borne a heavier weight of pain, terror, and wretchedness, and none was destined to bring with it more conclusive events than that year which marked the beginning of the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • …leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now on earth with elbows against the cut and slept-on branches of the pine tree with the smell of the pine boughs and the night; to earth conclusively now, and with the morning of the day to come.†   (source)
  • The event proved conclusively that he had been a fool to imagine Roark a dangerous rival; at one time, he had worried about Roark more than about Shlinker, even though Roark was two years younger and one class below him.†   (source)
  • That is not conclusive, because some people do certain actions with the right hand and others with the left.†   (source)
  • My eighty-two years showed just as conclusively that we must all die in the end as if I had died as a schoolboy.†   (source)
  • 1 see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.†   (source)
  • He went straight there, to the only place, the very place, where he could not help but prove conclusively the very statement which, coming from his father, he had called a lie.†   (source)
  • The woman Baby Mkize is a most unsatisfactory witness, and while the prosecution, and the Counsel for the defence of the first accused, demonstrated this most clearly, neither was able to produce that conclusive proof that the murder had been discussed.†   (source)
  • As mentioned at the beginning of this column, the district attorney now has in his possession a piece of evidence—we cannot disclose its nature at this moment—which proves conclusively that Roark is guilty.†   (source)
  • …onto the same spool which the thread of his remaining days ran onto and that spool almost near enough to him to reach out his hand and touch it But this was no grave concern yet, since it (the old logic, the old morality which had never yet failed to fail him) was already falling into pattern, already showing him conclusively that he had been right, just as be knew he had been, and therefore what had happened was just a delusion and did not actually exist) "No," Shreve said; "you wait.†   (source)
  • The aged Fiers, in my conclusive opinion, isn't worth mending; his forefathers had better have him.†   (source)
  • "You'll understand if you try hard enough," he said conclusively.†   (source)
  • Considered as testimony, what you've said is sure important an' conclusive.†   (source)
  • "I demonstrated conclusively this morning," began Kemp, "that invisibility—"†   (source)
  • The point about the signature is very suggestive—in fact, we may call it conclusive.†   (source)
  • I hardly consider that a conclusive proof.†   (source)
  • Her outburst of this evening about Evgenie's uncle proves that conclusively.†   (source)
  • I have had to do business with him, 'positively and conclusively.'†   (source)
  • The jewel-case is a conclusive proof that he did stand there….†   (source)
  • But there is yet another reason which is still more general and conclusive.†   (source)
  • And in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles vanished from his face.†   (source)
  • It is, nevertheless, conclusive to my mind.†   (source)
  • What is vulgar, but to refuse the claim on acute and conclusive reasons?†   (source)
  • The intercepted letter was conclusive upon a number of points of great interest to Ben-Hur.†   (source)
  • It is that I ask you for; though I don't conceal from you that I shall not regard it as conclusive."†   (source)
  • You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXXIII The conference was neither so short nor so conclusive as the lady had designed.†   (source)
  • In those still ambiguous words he kept eagerly looking for something more definite and conclusive.†   (source)
  • The money is ready conclusively to the last farthing.†   (source)
  • There were no present symptoms which could be deemed conclusive.†   (source)
  • "Positively and conclusively" were the merchant's favorite words.†   (source)
  • —In pursuing these speculations, said the dean conclusively, there is, however, the danger of perishing of inanition.†   (source)
  • It was Winks who summed up the general impression and put it into a form they all felt conclusively damning.†   (source)
  • The point she made was never the relevant point, her arguments conclusive but barren, she was reminded that he had expert knowledge and she none, and that experience would not help her because she could not interpret it.†   (source)
  • The utter death of every tender sentiment in his wife, as brought home to him by this mute and undesigned evidence of her sale of his portrait and gift, was the conclusive little stroke required to demolish all sentiment in him.†   (source)
  • He then had it returned and obtained another—a most instructive incident, since it proved conclusively to my mind that we were dealing with a real hound, as no other supposition could explain this anxiety to obtain an old boot and this indifference to a new one.†   (source)
  • The answer of the sisters to the communication was, if not conclusive, at least consoling and hopeful.†   (source)
  • And then, as Archer made no effort to glance at the paper or to repudiate the suggestion, the lawyer somewhat flatly continued: "I don't say it's conclusive, you observe; far from it.†   (source)
  • Now, in contrast, if he was to conduct his defence himself, he would have to devote himself entirely to the court — for the time being, at least — success would mean, later on, his complete and conclusive liberation, but if he was to achieve this he would have to place himself, to start with, in far greater danger than he had been in so far.†   (source)
  • That's sense," said Dunn, conclusively.†   (source)
  • I lingered but a moment at the mirror: the second and conclusive experiment had yet to be attempted; it yet remained to be seen if I had lost my identity beyond redemption and must flee before daylight from a house that was no longer mine; and hurrying back to my cabinet, I once more prepared and drank the cup, once more suffered the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more with the character, the stature, and the face of Henry Jekyll.†   (source)
  • At length, as he mounted a low ridge, Fairdale lay bright and green before him not far away, and the sight was a conclusive check.†   (source)
  • "I'm not hankering to be the man that lays hands on you while he's around," Pete announced conclusively, nodding his head toward Buck.†   (source)
  • Nothing came of this incident at the time, for the truth is it did not seem conclusive enough to warrant any discussion.†   (source)
  • Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.†   (source)
  • Which brings us back to our previous question about his mediocrity or more-than-mediocrity, to which we do not wish to give a conclusive answer.†   (source)
  • Then, impulsively and conclusively, she threw both arms about his neck and, pulling his head down, kissed him.†   (source)
  • He paused, serious and conclusive in his tone—because up to this time, Clyde had looked more curious and astonished than anything else.†   (source)
  • And in consequence, upon the same day that Heit and Mason were personally re-measuring the wounds upon Roberta's face and head, Burleigh slyly threading two of Roberta's hairs in between the door and the lens of the camera, so that Mason and Heit a little while later unexpectedly coming upon them, and wondering why they had not seen them before—nevertheless accepting them immediately as conclusive evidence of Clyde's guilt.†   (source)
  • He even succeeded in ranging his wife on his side on this question, though he found the feat very difficult to accomplish, because unnatural; but the general's arguments were conclusive, and founded upon obvious facts.†   (source)
  • As he sat in that vapour-bath of hurried and discontented humanity, a carriage of the underground railway, he, like others, stewed discontentedly, while in self-reproachful mood he turned over the many excellent and conclusive arguments which, though they lay at his fingers' ends, he had forgotten in the just past discussion.†   (source)
  • They all heard him patiently, and not a man uttered a word in reply in the way of argument, and Richard thought, by the time that he had gone through the settlement, the point was conclusively decided in his favor.†   (source)
  • _ It had, I say, in every respect, the appearance of its fellow in the other window; but this fact was an absolute nullity (conclusive us it might seem to be) when compared with the consideration that here, at this point, terminated the clew.†   (source)
  • This conclusive observation appeared to dissipate all the doubts of Gringoire and the other sceptics in the audience.†   (source)
  • There you are wrong again, Pathfinder; for there is a way of proving a thing much more conclusively than either seeing or feeling, or by both together; and that is by a circumstance.†   (source)
  • At those times, I would decide conclusively that my disaffection to dear old Joe and the forge was gone, and that I was growing up in a fair way to be partners with Joe and to keep company with Biddy,—when all in a moment some confounding remembrance of the Havisham days would fall upon me like a destructive missile, and scatter my wits again.†   (source)
  • The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really was.†   (source)
  • Louisa denied Tom's participation in the offence; but her mother stopped her with the conclusive answer, 'Louisa, don't tell me, in my state of health; for unless you had been encouraged, it is morally and physically impossible that you could have done it.'†   (source)
  • Bazarov, in whom Anna Sergyevna was obviously interested, though she seldom agreed with him, began to show signs of an unrest, unprecedented in him; he was easily put out of temper, and unwilling to talk, he looked irritated, and could not sit still in one place, just as though he were possessed by some secret longing; while Arkady, who had made up his mind conclusively that he was in love with Madame Odintsov, had begun to yield to a gentle melancholy.†   (source)
  • Pyotr Ilyitch persisted in returning to this point, and though he found out nothing conclusive, yet he carried away a conviction that Dmitri Fyodorovitch could have gone nowhere but to his father's house, and that therefore something must have happened there.†   (source)
  • "So be it!" said Henchard conclusively.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him so inconsequent, such a conclusive proof of his having abdicated all functions and renounced all exercise, that he should start on a journey across Europe under the supervision of Miss Stackpole.†   (source)
  • The circumstance which conclusively shows that this singular mildness of the Americans arises chiefly from their social condition, is the manner in which they treat their slaves.†   (source)
  • Miss Squeers reasoned that she was prepossessing and beautiful, and that her father was master, and Nicholas man, and that her father had saved money, and Nicholas had none, all of which seemed to her conclusive arguments why the young man should feel only too much honoured by her preference.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bumble, seeing at a glance, that the decisive moment had now arrived, and that a blow struck for the mastership on one side or other, must necessarily be final and conclusive, no sooner heard this allusion to the dead and gone, than she dropped into a chair, and with a loud scream that Mr. Bumble was a hard-hearted brute, fell into a paroxysm of tears.†   (source)
  • "True, true,—real thanksgiving!" dashed in Mark Clark conclusively, not feeling it to be of any consequence to his opinion that he had only heard about a word and three-quarters of what Joseph had said.†   (source)
  • As to Perhotin, the people at the tavern, and at Plotnikov's shop, as well as the witnesses at Mokroe, their evidence seemed conclusive.†   (source)
  • The voices of those who counseled delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past.†   (source)
  • "Now," said Pumblechook, and all this with a most exasperating air of saying in the cause of virtue what was perfectly convincing and conclusive, "I will tell you what to say to Joseph.†   (source)
  • She had expressed to Oak an intention to wait till Boldwood came home before communicating to him her conclusive reply.†   (source)
  • There were some people slinking about as usual when we passed out into the street, who were evidently anxious to speak with him; but there was something so conclusive in the halo of scented soap which encircled his presence, that they gave it up for that day.†   (source)
  • The mother's face lighted up with ecstatic happiness at the sight of this conclusive unspoken reconciliation.†   (source)
  • This was the document of which Ivan spoke to Alyosha later on as a "conclusive proof" that Dmitri had killed his father.†   (source)
  • Miss Squeers, having slight misgivings on the subject, was by no means ill pleased to be confirmed by a competent authority; and discovering, on further conversation and comparison of notes, a great many points of resemblance between the behaviour of Nicholas, and that of the corn-factor, grew so exceedingly confidential, that she intrusted her friend with a vast number of things Nicholas had NOT said, which were all so very complimentary as to be quite conclusive.†   (source)
  • …of the stairs, assuring herself by listening to the heavy breathing of her maids that they were asleep, gliding down again, turning the handle of the door within which the young girl lay, and deliberately setting herself to do what, if she had anticipated any such undertaking at night and alone, would have horrified her, but which, when done, was not so dreadful as was the conclusive proof of her husband's conduct which came with knowing beyond doubt the last chapter of Fanny's story.†   (source)
  • And turning over the beautifully written, wide-margined manuscript, Alexey Alexandrovitch read aloud over again the conclusive passage.†   (source)
  • As he was reaching the steps of Bakaleyev's, he suddenly fancied that something, a chain, a stud or even a bit of paper in which they had been wrapped with the old woman's handwriting on it, might somehow have slipped out and been lost in some crack, and then might suddenly turn up as unexpected, conclusive evidence against him.†   (source)
  • The proof of premeditation is conclusive; the crime must have been committed for the sake of the money, that is stated clearly, that is written and signed.†   (source)
  • Koch recognised the jewel-case and gave the name of the owner, who proved conclusively that it was his.†   (source)
  • She's got a document in her hands, in Mitya's own writing, that proves conclusively that he did murder Fyodor Pavlovitch."†   (source)
  • …the whole subject theoretically and to complete his book, which, in Levin's daydreams, was not merely to effect a revolution in political economy, but to annihilate that science entirely and to lay the foundation of a new science of the relation of the people to the soil, all that was left to do was to make a tour abroad, and to study on the spot all that had been done in the same direction, and to collect conclusive evidence that all that had been done there was not what was wanted.†   (source)
  • She had been caught in the act, and was now making jam before everyone, and it was to be proved to her conclusively that jam could be very well made without water.†   (source)
  • Alas! its mathematical conclusiveness was recognized, and had it not been for that letter, Mitya might have escaped his doom or, at least, that doom would have been less terrible.†   (source)
  • Raskolnikov had unwittingly worked a revolution in his brain on a certain point and had made up his mind for him conclusively.†   (source)
  • "But," said Sergey Ivanovitch, smiling subtly, and addressing Karenin, "One must allow that to weigh all the advantages and disadvantages of classical and scientific studies is a difficult task, and the question which form of education was to be preferred would not have been so quickly and conclusively decided if there had not been in favor of classical education, as you expressed it just now, its moral—disons le mot—anti-nihilist influence."†   (source)
  • And do you suppose, from the character of our legal system, that they will accept, or that they are in a position to accept, this fact—resting simply on a psychological impossibility—as irrefutable and conclusively breaking down the circumstantial evidence for the prosecution?†   (source)
  • Every one, perhaps, felt from the first that the case was beyond dispute, that there was no doubt about it, that there could be really no discussion, and that the defense was only a matter of form, and that the prisoner was guilty, obviously and conclusively guilty.†   (source)
  • The jealous man can forgive extraordinarily quickly (though, of course, after a violent scene), and he is able to forgive infidelity almost conclusively proved, the very kisses and embraces he has seen, if only he can somehow be convinced that it has all been "for the last time," and that his rival will vanish from that day forward, will depart to the ends of the earth, or that he himself will carry her away somewhere, where that dreaded rival will not get near her.†   (source)
  • When Countess Nordston ventured to hint that she had hoped for something better, Kitty was so angry and proved so conclusively that nothing in the world could be better than Levin, that Countess Nordston had to admit it, and in Kitty's presence never met Levin without a smile of ecstatic admiration.†   (source)
  • —O that, Stephen expostulated, has been proved conclusively by several of the bestknown passages in Holy Writ, apart from circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • …we may rest assured, has her own good and cogent reasons for whatever she does and in all probability such deaths are due to some law of anticipation by which organisms in which morbous germs have taken up their residence (modern science has conclusively shown that only the plasmic substance can be said to be immortal) tend to disappear at an increasingly earlier stage of development, an arrangement which, though productive of pain to some of our feelings (notably the maternal), is…†   (source)
  • I content myself with one, which is obvious and conclusive.†   (source)
  • …and the other is from nature; which last, I presume, is often meant by genius, or great natural parts; and it is infinitely the better of the two, not only as we are masters of it much earlier in life, but as it is much more infallible and conclusive; for a man who hath been imposed on by ever so many, may still hope to find others more honest; whereas he who receives certain necessary admonitions from within, that this is impossible, must have very little understanding indeed, if he…†   (source)
  • Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.†   (source)
  • Thus, then, it is conclusive that to attempt things from which harm rather than advantage may come to us is the part of unreasoning and reckless minds, more especially when they are things which we are not forced or compelled to attempt, and which show from afar that it is plainly madness to attempt them.†   (source)
  • During the remainder of the journey the licentiate held forth to them on the excellences of the sword, with such conclusive arguments, and such figures and mathematical proofs, that all were convinced of the value of the science, and Corchuelo cured of his dogmatism.†   (source)
  • Partridge had no sooner recovered his legs, than he appealed to his fall, as conclusive evidence of all he had asserted; but Jones finding he was unhurt, answered with a smile: "This witch of yours, Partridge, is a most ungrateful jade, and doth not, I find, distinguish her friends from others in her resentment.†   (source)
  • The argument under the present head may be put into a very concise form, which appears altogether conclusive.†   (source)
  • The following reflections will, if I mistake not, be admitted to be conclusive and satisfactory on this point.†   (source)
  • In some of them it may, perhaps, as a single experiment, made under circumstances somewhat peculiar, be thought to be not absolutely conclusive.†   (source)
  • The answer indeed seems to be so obvious and conclusive as scarcely to justify such a discussion in any place.†   (source)
  • So far is this from being the case, that a plain and conclusive argument to the contrary is to be deduced from the restraint laid upon the States in relation to duties on imports and exports.†   (source)
  • The more attentively I consider and investigate the reasons which appear to have given birth to this opinion, the more I become convinced that they are cogent and conclusive.†   (source)
  • And if they could be prevailed upon or compelled to do it, the increased expense of a frequent rotation of service, and the loss of labor and disconcertion of the industrious pursuits of individuals, would form conclusive objections to the scheme.†   (source)
  • The remarks made in a former number, which have been alluded to in another part of this paper, will apply with conclusive force against the admission of the House of Representatives to a share in the formation of treaties.†   (source)
  • It has been insinuated, that his authority in this respect is not conclusive, and that his conventions with foreign powers are subject to the revision, and stand in need of the ratification, of Parliament.†   (source)
  • These appeared to be conclusive reasons against incorporating the systems of all the States, in the formation of the national judiciary, according to what may be conjectured to have been the attempt of the Pennsylvania minority.†   (source)
  • But as a majority of the votes might not always happen to centre in one man, and as it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive, it is provided that, in such a contingency, the House of Representatives shall select out of the candidates who shall have the five highest number of votes, the man who in their opinion may be best qualified for the office.†   (source)
  • The door ought to be equally open to all; and I trust, for the credit of human nature, that we shall see examples of such vigorous plants flourishing in the soil of federal as well as of State legislation; but occasional instances of this sort will not render the reasoning founded upon the general course of things, less conclusive.†   (source)
  • If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them is conclusive upon the other departments, it may be answered, that this cannot be the natural presumption, where it is not to be collected from any particular provisions in the Constitution.†   (source)
  • When in addition to this we consider the State governments and the national governments, as they truly are, in the light of kindred systems, and as parts of ONE WHOLE, the inference seems to be conclusive, that the State courts would have a concurrent jurisdiction in all cases arising under the laws of the Union, where it was not expressly prohibited.†   (source)
  • Besides the conclusive evidence resulting from this assemblage of facts, that the federal Senate will never be able to transform itself, by gradual usurpations, into an independent and aristocratic body, we are warranted in believing, that if such a revolution should ever happen from causes which the foresight of man cannot guard against, the House of Representatives, with the people on their side, will at all times be able to bring back the Constitution to its primitive form and…†   (source)
  • Another answer, perhaps more obvious, though not more conclusive, will result from the consideration of the influence of the legislative body over the people; which might be employed to prevent the re-election of a man who, by an upright resistance to any sinister project of that body, should have made himself obnoxious to its resentment.†   (source)
  • His meaning, as his own words import, and still more conclusively as illustrated by the example in his eye, can amount to no more than this, that where the WHOLE power of one department is exercised by the same hands which possess the WHOLE power of another department, the fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted.†   (source)
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