What's the difference between conclusive and unanswerable?

Conclusive


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (2) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
  • (3) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (4) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (5) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
  • (6) The data support the conclusion that accumulation of lipid II is responsible in some way for the hypersensitivity of delta rfbA mutants to SDS.
  • (7) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (8) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (9) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (10) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
  • (11) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
  • (12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (13) In conclusion, autoimmune thyroiditis in an animal model can be prevented by reducing thyroidal iodine or its metabolism and optimal effects require intervention at the embryonic stage.
  • (14) This conclusion is based on the following evidence: (a) Ca(2+) stimulated hydrolysis of cyclic GMP by fraction II more than that of cyclic AMP.
  • (15) This study demonstrates conclusively that both renin and Ao genes are expressed in the newborn kidney, providing evidence for a local renin-angiotensin system that is subjected to developmental changes.
  • (16) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
  • (17) Particular attention has been paid to diabetes mellitus and chronic pancreatitis, but a firm conclusion cannot be drawn.
  • (18) In conclusion, the ability of distal tubules to establish a significant pH gradient will contribute to the titration of non bicarbonate buffers, i.e., to titratable acid formation.
  • (19) In conclusion there is no species specificity in rats or mice in the induction of the renal carcinoma by Fe-NTA, but male mice are far more susceptible to both the acute or subacute toxicity and carcinogenic effect of Fe-NTA than are female mice.
  • (20) In conclusion, 99Tcm-MIBI SPECT provides a reliable method for detecting CAD.

Unanswerable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An array of polling proves that the 50p rate is unanswerably popular: at the time it was introduced, Populus reckoned that 57% of people were in favour, as against only 22% against; and a subsequent poll by YouGov found that keeping the 50p rate would appeal to 88% of uncommitted voters.
  • (2) Although consultation, as an activity for intervention, has achieved considerable popularity among human service professionals and figures prominently in current federal mental health legislation, a basic question still unanswerable is, "Does it work?"
  • (3) Bruce Crawford, the cabinet secretary for strategy in the Scottish government, said it had received an "unanswerable mandate" to stage the referendum at a time of its choosing, "while the Lib Dems lost every … seat in mainland Scotland".
  • (4) But voters in 31 states awarded Trump outright victory, and he steadily amassed an unanswerable lead.
  • (5) Right from the off, when the chancellor's wheeze emerged on the Tory conference platform, it has been sustained by two rhetorical questions that sound unanswerable – why should anyone not working bring in more than the typical £26,000 wage?
  • (6) If we can hit the commission's trajectory simply by staying in neutral then the case for stepping up a gear and aiming for 30% is now unanswerable."
  • (7) The movie might not have continued to inspire this level of devotion without its central, unanswerable mystery about the cause of the time loop; other Hollywood fantasies provide explanations for their supernatural events.
  • (8) From that perspective, the case for GM crops is unanswerable.
  • (9) Long enough for me to realise that was an unanswerable, probably insulting question.
  • (10) JR: I suppose the big question at this point – and maybe it's an unanswerable question – is this: would the voices have got so aggressive and frightening if you'd never told your friend, and never seen that psychiatrist, and never been diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'?
  • (11) "The case is now unanswerable," said Ruth Davis, chief policy adviser at Greenpeace .
  • (12) Throw in cuts to in-work benefits, attacks on pensions and VAT rises, and the rationale for workers to fight back is surely unanswerable.
  • (13) He talked of the awful uncertainty of hindsight; of the unanswerable question of whether they, his parents, could have done more to help; whether should they have intervened or left Martin, by then in his 20s, to make his own decisions.
  • (14) "With this resignation the argument for a general election has gone from being strong and powerful to completely unanswerable.
  • (15) Every question they asked of City was unanswerable during those opening 45 minutes.
  • (16) Like the poet said: “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Really important photographs tell us something that we didn’t know, or didn’t want to know, or wish were not true, in urgent, unanswerable images.
  • (17) A cousin in Balham introduced him to jazz for the first time – the "unanswerable sound", he called it.
  • (18) Whether CEA saves lives is probably unanswerable, but as a skin cover it may reduce incidence of burn wound sepsis.
  • (19) And a spokesperson for the Sham Legion said: “The question about De Mistura’s ceasefire plan is unanswerable at the moment because of the ongoing battles in Aleppo Northern Countryside.
  • (20) I confess I don't dare guess at the answer to that, and it's probably unanswerable, but it's a key question to get right, for the sake of the future.