But if conflict is inevitable, then the least destructive approach is that which leads to a quick, decisive conclusion.

The question of the text's authorship has been analyzed at length, but with no decisive conclusions.

"On the other hand, air power alone could not have brought the war to so sharp and decisive a conclusion."

It is fair to say that no decisive conclusion appears to have been reached as to the success of these derivations.

If the war did indeed nudge the economy into the recession, will its quick and decisive conclusion pull the economy out?

The best outcome - a quick and decisive conclusion to the messy affair - also seems the least likely.

After this decisive conclusion, I entreated to be heard a word or two.

But the case has been left without a decisive conclusion.

One must wonder how you were able to reach decisive conclusions about the actress's motives.

Sadly, this guru died before passing on any decisive conclusion.