Tom is pretty decisive.

No, he said in a determined manner.

The answer is a resounding no.

Like his friends, he is insistent about his right to his home

The answer, Mr President, is an emphatic no.

Which is why there is nothing left for us but to say a firm No.

I think that I really need to be categorical and absolute here.

His answer was a clear cut no.

It is essential that reproductive cloning be categorically prohibited.

But Hussen is adamant I'm Canadian first, and Somali second.

The categorical imperative () is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

The director was categorical.

Aside from the necessity of its participating in the conference itself, it is also very important that the European Parliament be given a role in all of the preparations.

The verdict of the jury on this strange plea is clear and unambiguous.

To say that the UK government has been decisive is a nonsense it dithered over whether to bring in the army.

The report is unbalanced, contradictory and undifferentiated, and accordingly totally undermines the battle against discrimination against women.

And this person was very forceful and said,

The debate is closed.

Would Members please settle down and let us get on with the business.

I should like to be absolutely categorical.

The position of the European Union on this issue is quite simple, and quite firm.

My group says a definitive no to this trend.

The economic playbook is surprisingly clear, surprisingly straightforward, in the short term especially.

The most important philosopher of categorical moral reasoning is the eighteenth century German philosopher Emmanuel Kant.

(iv) A categorical renunciation of the nuclear weapons option

I believe that the Union must act decisively.

I have to tell you that our group's position on this is much more categorical.

As regards the other issues, this report is, in my view, thorough, comprehensive and of great importance.

In Germany, they are categorically forbidden to work.

On the blog Cry Me An Onion, Patrick Bernard is unequivocal in his post Let's Get Rid Of The African Union

His delegation categorically rejected their exaggerated assertions.

This report by the Court of Auditors categorically disproves the Commission' s words.

We categorically oppose this philosophy and the negative proposals tabled in order to implement it.

And a positive identification is made because the photograph replaced the memory, if there ever was an actual memory.

Alongside these elements, however, the country s outright rejection of terrorism and terrorists remains, and is virtually unanimous.

Then Russia's president Vladimir Putin apparently did not think so. According to the Chinese daily Xinhua on February 23, 2008

We cannot therefore accept the categoric statement con tained in point 4 as it stands.

We want to make that message as loud and clear and unequivocal as we possibly can.

That resolution categorically affirms that Irian Jaya is part of Indonesia.

lve no exaggerated idea of my own value but what did she say to make you so emphatic on that point?

Although it is not the case that private copying should be treated as automatically permitted, the priority should be to ensure that unlicensed copying for commercial purposes should clearly be forbidden.

Given the trend in international practice and doctrine, the Nordic countries believed that the inclusion of interest should be stated more clearly.

And this person was very forceful and said, Look. That's the only way you'll ever do it.

In this talk of the 'causes' of human rights violations, the plural is in fact superfluous.

Some reproductive toxic effects cannot be clearly assigned to either impairment of sexual function and fertility or to developmental toxicity.