Taking away potentially 10 to 20% of available funds would be a definite setback in making said purchases.
Perhaps not but it would be a definite improvement over the current arrangements.
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It's expected to be largely positive, although there is unlikely to be any definite commitment to put computer science on the curriculum.
"We have tried to find solutions on paper that would allow us short-term means to achieve an agreement so that there will be a definite cessation of hostilities, " he said.
Quite: there does seem to be a definite difference.
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But such an unexpected and public U-turn on a major policy will be seen as a definite blow to the Gove brand.
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It may be that when or if it becomes clear who carried out these murders, there will be a big and definite reaction from America.
Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantial increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
The chancellor is saying that the transition to a nuclear-free future will be well-considered, and definite.
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She is seeing a doctor again this morning and then maybe we may be able to give a more definite reason.
Even so, without a definite resolution it would not be quite lawful.
Unfortunately, while such humble epistemic abstinence can be admirable, somewhere we have to make definite moral judgments.
But to compute an economic model, this theory has to be given concrete form, spelt out in definite algebraic terms.
But there is a definite understanding that this relationship will be an important one in decades to come, and the more India and China watchers who turn their eyes on the other country, the better.
But from the driver's seat of our minivan, I had the definite feeling that Amherst would never be my town again, that the town itself wouldn't stand for it, that they didn't need a prodigal son, that a prodigal son was exactly what they didn't need.
To Bradley, the idea that she might be lowering her risk of breast cancer is a definite bonus.
But the acid test will come at the 2004 Australian Open, when as a seeded player and a recent winner of a Masters title, Henman will be counted, if not as a favourite, a definite contender.
Before it took on its rebranding exercise, the organization made sure it had a definite sense of how it wanted its brand to be perceived.
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It has repeatedly pushed back deadlines and run over budget and although officials said last week that it should be ready by April 27, that date is not considered definite.
DDT-spraying would be cheap and effective, but says that the government has no definite plans to start spraying again.
Richard Schofield from Network Rail said plans for a station at the Cambridge Science Park was a definite scheme by the site's developer and would be implemented in the next two to three years.
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As is usually the case in studies of this sort, the sample size was small (and therefore not as robust as might be desirable) and the result showed an association, rather than a definite, causal relationship.
It is definite that the U.S. base at Manta, Ecuador will not be renewed by the Correa government when our lease there expires in 2009.
As always, there's no definite timetable for when (and if) NC State's technology might be commercialized -- so call someone's bluff if they promise you a nanoflower bouquet.
Leading us on to believe such incredulous things such as a next-to-definite Apple tablet, an almost-certain iPhone, sure-to-be-impending widescreen (and wireless) iPod, forthcoming iSight-ed Cinema Display, and an 802.11n-compatible iTV may actually see the light of day.
Kilroy already is prepared to finance construction projects, while developers who need projects approved can sometimes be delayed by lenders who remain leery of construction projects that don't yet have a definite income stream.
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Nothing has even made it out of committee yet, so the actual passage of a patent reform bill still seems quite far off, but there is definite talk going on in Washington as to what patent reform would look like, and there seems to be enough common ground for some good to come of it.
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