Sentence examples for a decisive act from inspiring English sources

In this sense, the union of a man and a woman is a decisive act because constitute the entire society.

Each iteration represented a decisive act: Bonny's team had arrived at a new approach they felt confident about implementing.

She makes short work of it in a decisive act that brings everything this novel has to offer into focus - too briefly and too late.

Garff underlines the symbolism: "This little gesture was a decisive act: Regine freed herself from the writing; she had given up being a Regine of words on paper and had returned to reality".

The Prophet Abraham, in a decisive act of obedience to the will of God, prepared to sacrifice his son Ishmael.

Fed officials clearly hoped that a bold and decisive act would calm investors and restore confidence in credit markets, where fears about soaring defaults on subprime mortgages have increasingly forced banks to curtail their lending in other areas.

The transfer of ownership of state assets to private owners will not be a new and decisive act, but simply the correct settlement of bills long past due.Wolf Barleugh LondonRecapitalising Irish banksSIR – I refer to "The world this year" in your December 17th issue, which claimed that Ireland got "a second rescue package of €24 billion" in 2011.

With Strauss, more than many other composers, this translation requires a particularly strong and decisive act of the interpretive imagination.

It was the home side who provided the first decisive act when a corner was cleared to Vincent.

The ramifications of such a decisive political act and its intrinsic roots in Protestantism are examined in a work of extraordinary richness and scope.

It was to be a decisive, unilateral act that would allow Israel to embrace its major settlement blocs, effectively colonies in the occupied West Bank, while dividing itself off once and for all from Palestinians.