According to Paul Schlamm, a safety board spokesman, the ultimate determination of the probable cause will probably rest with the board itself rather than its staff.

His Web site explains: "A TruWarier now is any individual with the ultimate determination to accomplish anything."

But beginning Dec. 9, the audience will make the ultimate determination if the faith was justified.

Judge Shadur said, taking all the factors together, that the proposed settlements were "fair, reasonable and adequate, which is the ultimate determination."

Cases involving fundamental and urgent issues of broad public import requiring prompt and ultimate determination.

Nor his ultimate determination, a factor that often separates the great from the near great.

The ultimate determination about what is craft and what is art will be made by history.

There are provisions for members of the board or the public to take the ultimate determination of the board to court.

Nor can one say that the court's ultimate determination is so unreasonable as to amount to a constitutionally "impermissible distortion" of Florida law.

In either case, Ms. Copeland said, the ultimate determination would be based on the unique and specific facts of the case.