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It has been a generation since the British electorate delivered such an inconclusive result at a general election.

His first audiology test was inconclusive as he screamed and cried through most of it and was not able to follow any of the directions.

It took a greater act of faith than I was capable of to believe that they would abide willingly by an inconclusive outcome.

Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard, said the evidence for the presumed adverse effects of economic segregation was inconclusive.

Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.

Typically, you add an Assert. Inconclusive statement to a test that you are still working on to indicate it is not yet ready to be run.

It seemed for a time as if an inconclusive election might see Britain's new prime minister fall at the final fence.

Rather than withdraw from Gaza, where the fighting has so far been inconclusive, Israel is now poised to send in units of reservists .

During the run, verification points produce a pass, fail, error, or inconclusive status in the Web Service Verification Point report.

The long inconclusive series of wars on the continent were comfortably removed, in terms of danger or observable bloodshed.

The responses from many of those concerned have, to a large extent, been incoherent, and some of the evidence is still inconclusive.

Merchandizing right is a new concept of law, and domestic and international research on this issue is inconclusive.

However, the authors say evidence that such a chain of events is in fact unfolding in China is "only fragmented and inconclusive" .

However, the cause and effect relationship between muscle function and facial morphology is still inconclusive.

Researchers think daily caffeine intake can increase the risk of coronary heart disease, but the results so far have been inconclusive.

A few studies have been done to compare the effectiveness of the different preservatives but the data is limited and inconclusive.

Five months after inconclusive elections, Iraq still has no new government.

With e-books still representing about 5 percent of the total book market, data on the effect of digital giveaways is still inconclusive.

Three trials of this technique have been made by the EPA, the first two being inconclusive due to logistical difficulties.

When the test ran, no Assert statement produced a Failed result, but at least one Assert. Inconclusive statement was satisfied.

"Ultimately the results seem pretty inconclusive at this point, " Dr. Austad said. "I don't know why they didn't wait longer to publish. "

The tendency is to treat these themes as competing and engage in an interesting but inconclusive debate about their relative merits.

The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said its tracing of the most recent attacks to its Web site to Chinese servers is inconclusive.

In almost all cases, the results of using a specimen sufficiently contaminated to alter test results simply would BE ruled inconclusive.

Said Until today, the origin of Chinese characters is inconclusive, in fact, is that even the little prospect of a solution at all.

A three-hour meeting between the five permanent members of the security council and Germany in New York on Saturday was inconclusive.

Although still inconclusive, the fighting has left the country further polarised and may have further postponed a negotiated solution.

The first vote in April was inconclusive, and a second round was eventually ruled illegal and nullified .

But they warn that the information coming out of North Korea is frustratingly vague and inconclusive.

Several studies have been done to compare the effectiveness of the different preservatives but the data are limited and inconclusive.

Work at the pilot plant has proved slow , talks with multinationals remain inconclusive and there is no production timetable .

On Monday , the two countries' foreign ministers met to resolve the dispute over the border area , but the talks were inconclusive .

Additional testing in a WHO collaborating laboratory may produce inconclusive or only weakly positive results.

However, published studies of the role of angiogenesis as a prognostic factor are inconclusive.

The result of the dinner was inconclusive: an agreement to keep talking.

Arguablely these data are inconclusive, and Graham subsequently denied ever making such a claim; [43] it is a warning sign nonetheless.

Folklorists of the "Finnish" (or historical-geographical) school attempted to place fairy tales to their origin, with inconclusive results.

These tears are not detectable by X-ray, and though they usually can be seen by MRI, even those images can sometimes be inconclusive.

Previous studies have been inconclusive about these conditions' associations with CHD.

If two mitochondrial DNA sequences differ by a single unit, current guidelines require the analyst to report the comparison as inconclusive.

Tuesday's announcement coincides with Iraq's continued struggle to form a new government, five months after inconclusive elections.

More than two seasons of inconclusive fighting, and the death of more than 100 British soldiers, have failed to secure southern Afghanistan.

EU diplomat Solana and Jalili had what a European spokesman described as an inconclusive telephone discussion Monday .

In these cases either partial STR profiles, or worse, no STR profiles may be generated, leading to inconclusive results.

But Monday's activity suggested that investors now believe the meeting was inconclusive at best.

While evidence that bleaching erodes enamel is inconclusive, it may increase sensitivity.

Critics of climate research argue the data are incomplete, the climate modelling uncertain, the predictions inconclusive.

That includes the 30 bodies found in a canal that prosecutors allege were victims of the KLA, but which judges ruled were inconclusive.

They advise clonality testing in cases with an inconclusive diagnosis or with unusual histologic, immunophenotypic or clinical presentation.

However, these contentions are based mainly on faulty extrapolations of preliminary or inconclusive evidence.

Just think of the controversy over bisphenol A, about which the studies of effects in humans are maddeningly inconclusive.

However, the studies on the association between stress ulcer and bile reflux to the stomach with stress ulcer are still inconclusive.

an inconclusive reply; inconclusive evidence; the inconclusive committee vote.

The position of its coalition government's Conservative agriculture minister, Caroline Spelman, is that the evidence is inconclusive.

However, to date, the research is inconclusive largely due to methodological problems.

test bars are usually cast for each heat , but their analysis may be inconclusive.

In our national debate, the inconclusive effort was blamed on the diversion of resources to Iraq rather than on its inherent implausibility.

Some previous studies have hinted coffee could have a protective effect, although the findings have been inconclusive.

Previous diagnostic tests produced inconclusive results.

Few academics have studied the link between drug use and macroeconomic performance, and what work exists is inconclusive.

But until now, tests of general relativity on galactic scales have been inconclusive.

Previous studies have been small, short-term studies that were inconclusive.

In the event that the elections are inconclusive, the ministers continue to perform their functions.

Evidence, however, is mixed and inconclusive about whether early detection actually saves lives.

The academic evidence on Keynesian growth effects of fiscal deficits is thoroughly inconclusive.

Even more judgment is required in the many situations in which evidence is absent or inconclusive.

AFTER months of inconclusive skirmishing, Washington's budgetary battle-lines are being drawn in earnest.

Although the link to brain tumors remains inconclusive, the new work suggests cell phones may indeed be messing with our minds.

Always produces a test with a result of Inconclusive.

In any case, the link between the absolute size of deficits and yields is inconclusive.

The role of additional bone scintigraphy is inconclusive even retrospectively.

The jury found the evidence against the prisoner inconclusive and acquitted him.

Any judgements rendered by philosophical historians concerning humanity's efforts at realising ideals will be forever inconclusive at best.

definitive, decisive, final inconclusive adj.

The results so far are inconclusive .

What evidence is lacking, inconclusive, contradictory or too limited?

That the evidence was inconclusive , the science uncertain?

Bloggs could take no satisfaction in the likelihood that Faber was dead. It was too inconclusive .

A new parliament has convened in Iraq, more than three months after inconclusive elections.

Trade negotiations between the three nations are still inconclusive .

Even if the result is inconclusive, this may not be as disastrous as the example of 1974 suggests.

The Schuffner test was inconclusive but the Widal reaction supported typhoid fever and he was admitted to Ruchill Hospital on 13 December.

The investigation, which was not finished during the war, gave only inconclusive results.

Therefore the tests for the gene may be inconclusive.

But several factors have helped to make the Muslim debate about democracy difficult and inconclusive.

The trust password verification test was inconclusive.

Politicians are still deadlocked over how to form a new government, more than five months after inconclusive elections.

An inconclusive trial, as one in which the jurors fail to agree on a verdict.

The Inconclusive test condition is the default condition added to every test.

The results, in the eighteenth century, were inconclusive .

"I have to say it's really very inconclusive, " Raymond said.

The evidence is inconclusive in proving how far the Shang realm extended from Anyang.

Nearly seven years into America's "global war on terror" , the result remains inconclusive.

Rather than put too much stock into the inconclusive data, experts recommend limiting salt intake to some degree.

Do the troubleshooting instructions produce inconclusive results or contain faulty logic?

I won't wait for an inconclusive results . . .

The committee was a mess: rambling, inconclusive, a haven for back-channelers and leakers.

Even when findings do show links between alcohol use and self-esteem, they are mixed and inconclusive.

Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition.

They, indeed, had launched their country in the 1960s into this war of inconclusive ends and ambiguous means.

commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds.

FISH analysis was done for 69 patients with inconclusive or non available on-site cytology results.

Stock price moves, alone, are inconclusive.

However, his sample size was small and the results were inconclusive.

On August 24, an inconclusive action was fought to the north of the Solomons.

The remainder of cases were inconclusive .

But in general the evidence about risks is inconclusive.

Markets' nerves were already frayed by still-inconclusive debates on how to solve Greece's financing problem.

I'm concerned because these tests are inconclusive.

And the findings are inconclusive as yet, Smith indicated.

The definition, causes and quantification of crisp and associated sensations such as crunchy and crumbly are complex and inconclusive.

The results are still inconclusive .

But the tests used there, such as examining the shape of cells and staining for various proteins, are sometimes inconclusive.

He adds that, based on the latest study, it's still inconclusive whether four or six months is a better time to start your child on solids.

Previous research into the health effects of mobile phones, in the short time they have been in use, has proved inconclusive.

They told us this week that the tests are inconclusive and they could not give us the results just yet.

The tester selects standard results (for example, "pass, " "fail, " "error, " "inconclusive" ) from a drop-down list.

There were flaws in the research, however, and the study was inconclusive.

Indeed, Mr Maliki would not have kept his post as prime minister after last year's inconclusive election without Mr Sadr's endorsement.

What kind of houses belonging to Gaojiafang, how to judge the real estate investment for their own use or currently were inconclusive .

a trial that is invalid or inconclusive.

Trust implies depth and assurance of feeling that is often based on inconclusive evidence:

Current scientific evidence is inconclusive about whether incentives to encourage good health are effective. Photograph: PA

inconclusive arguments, discussions, evidence, etc

British Parties Seek Partners After Inconclusive Election

Blind spots: monitoring some, but not all of an environment leads to inconclusive results during analysis

The curiously inconclusive finish to the symphony

may possibly reduce the risk of diabetes (data inconclusive)

Clinton Meets with Abbas after Inconclusive Peace Talks